The position was too perilous, though, for them to continue on one course long, and at the end of forty or fifty yards they stopped, both listening intently.
"Some of them are talking with one another now," whispered Tayoga.
"The warrior who swam does not come back to his canoe, and they wonder why he stays in the water so long.

Soon they will know that he is never coming out of the water.

Now I hear a voice raised somewhat above the others.

It is a French voice.

It is not that of St.Luc, because he must remain on shore to direct his army.