CHAPTER XIV.
BEFORE QUEBEC True to the predictions of Tayoga, they struck the trail of St.Luc and Tandakora far up in the province of New York and west of Lake Champlain.
Ever since the white man came, hostile forces had been going north or south along well-defined passes in these regions, and, doubtless, bands of Indians had been traveling the same course from time immemorial; so it was not hard for them to come upon the traces of French and Indians going to Quebec to make the great stand against Wolfe and his fleet.
"It is a broad trail because many Frenchmen and Indians make it," said the Onondaga.

"As I have said, Sharp Sword and Tandakora do not like each other, but circumstances make them allies.

They have rejoined and they go together to Quebec.

Here is the trail of at least three hundred men, perhaps two hundred Frenchmen and a hundred warriors.

The footsteps of Sharp Sword are unmistakable, and so are those of Tandakora.