CHAPTER III.
THE SIGNAL The day advanced, brilliant with sunshine, and the forces of St.Luc were quiet.

For a long time, not a shot was fired, and it seemed to the besieged that the forest was empty of human beings save themselves.
Robert did not believe the French leader would attempt a long siege, since an engagement could not be conducted in that manner in the forest, where a result of some kind must be reached soon.

Yet it was impossible to tell what plan St.Luc had in mind, and they must wait until Tayoga came.
Young Captain Colden was in good spirits.

It was his first taste of wilderness warfare, and he knew that he had done well.

The dead were laid decently among the bushes to receive Christian burial later, if the chance came, and the wounded, their hurts bound up, prepared to take what part they could in a new battle.