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