"I will. Have you seen what is outside?"
"Not yet. We will take our breakfast together, and then we will go forth to see what we may see."
They ate heartily, and then with rifles cocked passed into the defile, where they found only the bones of wolves, picked clean by the others. But the skeleton of the huge leader was gone, although the arrow that had slain him was lying among the rocks.
"The living must have dragged away his bones. A curious thing to do," said Robert.
Tayoga was silent.
CHAPTER XIII
TANDAKORA'S GRASP
They spent two more days in the cave, and Tayoga's marvelous cure proceeded with the same marvelous rapidity. Robert repeatedly bathed the wound for him, and then redressed it, so the air could not get to it. The Onondaga was soon able to flex the fingers well and then to use the arm a little.
"It is sure now," he said joyfully, "that Waraiyageh and Dieskau cannot meet before I am able to do battle."
"Anyhow, they wouldn't think of fighting until you came, Tayoga," said
Robert.