For him, haughty and uncompromising, they did not exist.
For a long time his deep unfathomable eyes had never turned from the fire, but now he rose suddenly and said: "Someone comes in the forest!" De Courcelles looked up in surprise.
"I hear nothing," he said.
"Someone comes in the forest!" repeated Tayoga with emphasis.
De Courcelles glanced at his own Indians.

They had not yet moved, but in a moment or two they too rose to their feet, and then he knew that the Onondaga was right.

Now Robert also heard a moccasined and light footstep approaching.

A darker shadow appeared against the darkness, and the figure of an Indian, gigantic and sinister, stepped within the circle of the firelight.
It was Tandakora, the Ojibway..