away to the right. It's a little one, and there's

others near it. The sharp eyes o' the Redskins won't

be so likely to be prowlin' there."

"Come on, then; but we'll have to take down by the

lake first."

In a few minutes the hunters were threading their

way through the outskirts of the wood at a rapid trot,

in the opposite direction from the bluff, or wooded knoll,

which they wished to reach. This they did lest prying

eyes should have followed them. In quarter of an hour