"Yes. There are plenty of them in the woods."
"What are they waiting for?"
"The chance. There ain't enough, and we're too wide awake to allow them to attack us at present. They're waiting to take us off our guard or to get us at disadvantage. I've an idee where that'll be."
"The creek?"
"Most certainly. There's where the tug of war will come, and I think if we should encamp to-night without a guard there would be no danger of attack from the Shawnees."
"Are you going to warn others?"
"Not until night, I think, as there is no necessity for it."
"Well, we don't need to tell you to be on the look-out. You know we've got a lot of women-folks to take care of."
"Never fear."
With this, Laughlin stole back into the wood, as cautiously as he had emerged from it, and the father and his sons quickened their pace in order to gain the ground they had lost. As they resumed their places in the rear of the wagon, no one would have suspected from their actions and appearance, that they had been conversing upon a subject so important to all.