won't be up for an hour. Come along."

"Have ye got the big powder-horn, Joe?"

"Ay, ay, all right."

"Stop! stop! my knife, my couteau. Ah, here I be!

Now, boy."

The three set off as usual, strolling carelessly to the

outskirts of the camp; then they quickened their pace,

and, gaining the lake, pushed off in a small canoe.

At the same moment Mahtawa stepped from the

bushes, leaped into another canoe, and followed them.