It would be just like 'em to blaze away at us the moment they saw the bushes move with our coming." Captain Colden was glad to take his advice, and the white youth and the red went forward silently through the forest, hearing the sound of cheerful voices, as they drew near to the campfire which was a large one blazing brightly.

They also heard the sound of horses moving and they knew that the detachment had taken no harm.

Tayoga parted the bushes and peered forth.
"Look!" he said.

"Surely they are watched over by Manitou!" About twenty men, or rather boys, for all of them were very young, were standing or lying about a fire.

A tall, very ruddy youth in the uniform of a colonial lieutenant was speaking to them.
"Didn't I tell you, lads," he said, "there wasn't an Indian nearer than Fort Duquesne, and that's a long way from here! We've come a great distance and not a foe has appeared anywhere.