"He did," replied Tayoga earnestly.
"What did he say?"
"That the great war will go on, and that you and I and the Great Bear, who is away, will encounter many more perils. The rest is veiled."
"And while we take our ease, Tayoga, our enemies are at work."
"What does Dagaeoga mean?"
"I went into the room containing the chest of drawers, the story of which you read, and found there Garay, the spy, trying to open it."
"Dagaeoga does not dream?"
"Oh, I thought for a moment or two that I did, but it was reality. Garay escaped through the open window, and, on the lock of the third drawer, were scratches that he left where he had been working with a sharp tool. Come, Tayoga, and look at them."
The two went into the house. Robert lighted a lamp for better light, and Tayoga knelt before the drawer, giving it a long and close examination.
"Garay is a very clever man," he said at last, "much cleverer, perhaps, than we gave him the credit of being."