It's going to help us in more ways than one, too.

I'd expected that we'd have to use flint and steel to touch off our blaze, but as they're likely to leave their own fire and seek shelter, maybe we can get a torch there.

Now, you two boys keep close to me and we'll approach that fire, or the place where it was." They continued a cautious advance, their moccasins making no sound in the soft snow, all objects invisible at a distance of twelve or fifteen feet.

Yet they saw one Indian warrior on watch, although he did not see or hear them.

He was under the boughs of a small tree and was crouched against the trunk, protecting himself as well as he could from the tumbling flakes.