"I can't tell you, for I don't know. I parted from them some time ago, and don't know where they are."
"Why you leave them?"
"We saw the smoke of your camp fire, and we started out to find whether it belonged to white or red men."
The Indian looked sharply down in his face, and laid his hand on his tomahawk, as if asking himself whether he had not better end the whole matter by whipping out the weapon, and braining the little fellow as he sat on the log.
"Be oder Yengese in woods?"
"Not that I know of; Jack Gedney had a new gun given him yesterday by his father because it was his birthday, and he and we started into the woods to-day on a hunt."
Poor George would probably have added more had not an interruption taken place at that moment, caused by an important arrival.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE SIGNAL AND ITS REPLY.
You will remember that when the three boys separated with the purpose of finding out who started the camp fire, Will went to the right and Jack to the left.