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"Go," whispered the boy, pointing toward the bluff; "no noise"

These words were as low and as fine as the little whisper that you

hear a the leaves of the alder when a faint wind co and moves them And while he yet remained

bewildered by the suddenness of the boy's appearance, his own

deliverance, and the order that had been given to hi over his cos that bound him Stephens now moved hastily away a short

distance, and then turned The captive was upon his feet, and his

deliverer was beside hie

bound to his feet, with hatchet uplifted, and make towards the two

At the same time he uttered the fierce alarum-yell of the Stoney

tribe

"Fly!" shouted the Indian boy to the white "Away!" and then he

turned to face the approaching foe The savage came on, and when, as

it seemed to Stephens, his hatchet was about to cleave the boy's

skull, there was a pistol report, and the Indian fell with a

convulsive toss of his arms This was accomplished in the space of a

couple of heart-beats; but the ti Jean and

the entire party to their feet

"Fly!" repeated the Indian boy, and he bounded swiftly out of the