"If that redskin, the Owl, has got any suspicion--and suspicion you may be sure he's got--he won't rest till he's cleared the matter up.

He is after us, sure enough." "Then had we not better make for the canoe at full speed ?" "No," Nat said.

"If they are behind us, they will be watching our trail; and if they see we change our pace, they will be after us like a pack of wolves; while, as long as we walk slowly and carelessly, they will let us go.

If it were dark, we might make a run for it, but there ain't no chance at present.

If we took to the lake, we should have a hundred canoes after us, while the woods are full of Indians, and a whoop of the Owl would bring a hundred of them down onto our track." "Why shouldn't the Owl have denounced you at once, if he suspected you ?" James asked.
"Because it ain't redskin nature to do anything, till you are sure," the scout replied.