order which the dog obeyed so vigorously that, before

the men had done laughing at him, he was a couple of

hundred yards ahead of them.

"Take care that he don't get off!" cried Dick, springing

on Charlie and stretching out at a gallop.

In a moment he was beside the Indian. Scraping together

the little of the Indian language he knew, he stooped

down, and, cutting the thongs that bound him, said,--

"Go! white men love the Indians."

The man cast on his deliverer one glance of surprise,