"Yes; we hear all kinds of things about them. What stories we have read, and yet they don't look and act as I imagined they would. I thought they would suffer and die without showing the least pain, and yet Shasta wasn't anyways backward about it."
"No doubt the poor fellow felt bad enough, and he hasn't got over it yet. You can tell that from his appearance."
"It will take all his skill to help Tim. Just as like as not he will take Shasta for an enemy and shoot him."
"If they only see each other before dark, so that Tim can understand that he has a friend at work."
"But you see it is nearly dark now, and it is likely he is in the woods by this time."
"What danger can he be in then?"
"The Indians may cross over to follow him."
They were silent a while when Elwood suddenly exclaimed.
"Suppose Shasta is an enemy and has gone to help his people?"
Howard shook his head.