"I cannot say," the hunter answered, "I do not understand it myself. About an hour back, an Indian suddenly sprung up by my side as if emerging from the ground, and leaping on a horse of whose presence I was equally ignorant, started at full speed in the direction of the village."
"That is strange," Loyal Heart muttered; "and you do not know who the Indian is?"
"Apache."
"Apache, impossible!"
"That is just the point that staggers me; how could an Apache venture to the village alone?"
"There is something up we do not know; and then the signals we heard?"
"This man answered them."
"What is to be done?"
"Find out."
"But in what way?"