In nine cases out of ten the warriors would have tomahawked him, and this he soon realized, thankful at the same time that he had been spared, for the present, at least.

Yet his mortification endured.
What would Tayoga say when he saw by the trail that he had been caught so easily?
He had fairly walked into the trap, and he was now a prisoner the second time.

Yet he showed the stoicism that he had learned in a forest life.

While the Indians bound his wrists tightly with rawhide thongs he stood up and looked them squarely in the face.
One of the warriors took his rifle and examined it with a pleased eye.

Another appropriated his pistol and a third helped himself to his knife and hatchet.
"I've four shillings in an inside pocket," said Robert.