asleep.

Joe's brow flushed and his lips became tightly compressed

as he muttered between his set teeth, "Their

skins are white."

A short examination sufficed to show that the men

who had thus been barbarously murdered while they

slept had been a band of trappers or hunters, but what

their errand had been, or whence they came, they could

not discover.

Everything of value had been carried off, and all the