I've had that thought too." They walked on toward Champlain, through a forest apparently without sign of danger, and Tayoga, hearing a slight noise in a thicket, turned off to the right to see if a deer were browsing there.

He found nothing, but as the sound came again from a point farther on, he continued his search, leaving his comrade out of sight behind him.

The thickets were very dense and suddenly the warning of Tododaho came.
He sprang back as quick as lightning, and doubtless he would have escaped had it not been for his wounded shoulder.

He hurled off the first warrior who threw himself upon him, slipped from the grasp of a second, but was unable to move when the mighty Tandakora and another seized him by the shoulders.
But in the moment of dire peril he remembered his comrade and uttered a long and thrilling cry of warning, which the huge hand of Tandakora could not shut off in time.

Then, knowing he was trapped and would only injure his shoulder by further struggles, he ceased to resist, submitting passively to the binding of his arms behind him.
He saw that Tandakora had seven or eight warriors with him, and a half dozen more were bounding out on the trail after Robert.