The six long war canoes moved slowly.

The moonlight came out more brightly, and flooded all the bronze faces of the Iroquois.

Henry now saw that he was not mistaken, and that Braxton Wyatt and Walter Butler were really in the first boat.

From the cover of the cliff he could have picked off either with a rifle bullet, and the temptation was powerful.

But he knew that it would lead to an immediate siege, from which they might not escape, and which at least would check their activities and plans for a long time.