"It depends what the intentions of our friends outside may be. We shall certainly have to be on the alert."
"You mean we shall have to keep watch."
"That I think will be necessary. They might try to rush the cabin, though I do not think they will. It is pretty solidly built."
"Why should Indians attack us?"
"I do not know. They may think that we are interfering with their hunting-rights."
"Perhaps this hostility explains why the owner of the cabin has not returned."
"That is possible. This is a good fur country; but he may have felt that the furs were not worth the risk."
"Yes!" answered Helen, and after a moment's silence asked: "Do you think those Indians up the lake have anything to do with it?"
"That is more than possible, indeed, it is very likely. I did not like that old chief. There was a very cunning look in his eyes and it is very possible that he designs to get rid of both us and Anderton. The mysterious visitants we have had, and the man in the wood this morning have a rather ominous look."
"But we shall fight them?"