The soul of Tayoga leaped up.

They had received a sign.

They were in the care of Tododaho and they could not fail.
Another flake fell on Robert's face and a third followed, and then they came down in a white and gentle stream that soon covered him, Willet and Tayoga and hung like a curtain before them.

He looked back toward the fort, but the veil there also hung between and he could not see it.

Then he looked again, and the dim fire had disappeared in the white mist.
"Will it keep their huts and lodges from burning ?" he whispered to the hunter.
Willet shook his head.
"If we get a fire started well," he said, "the snow will seem to feed it rather than put it out.