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Updated: July 11, 2025
"I guess he never stopped running until be got there anyway!" Sandy grinned. "But why should he come right back here after being chased away?" "I don't think he did!" "Will replied. "Oje saw him out here not long ago!" Sandy insisted. "What was he doing?" "I presume he was watching the fire." "The two men who pursued him are back, too!" Will continued.
Oje held up three fingers to indicate that he saw three fires. His eyes were sharper than those of the boys, who at first saw only a blur of light. Before long, however, they caught sight of three points of flame lifting above the hills. As the boys looked the blazes seemed to die down, or to be obscured by additional material being thrown upon them.
We know they can't get out, so we're just going to sit down here and wait for them to get good and hungry." "All right!" Sandy answered. "Two can watch and two can go back to the cabin! George will be good and anxious by this time." "I was thinking of asking Oje to watch a short time," Will said. "It's a good thing the Indian came along with you."
He drew quite close to the bushes where the three lay; so close, indeed, that they could hear him muttering as he lost the trail because of the darkness. Presently, he turned back. "I think I understand," he said hoarsely. "Two of the boys were treed by bears and Oje rescued them. I presume they are half way to the cabin before this."
He's said to be the champion fisherman of this section, and if you really want to get fish for supper, we'd better get him interested." Oje was not a very romantic looking Indian, his general appearance being that of a bear fitted out with about three hides. The boys noticed, however, that none of the clothing he wore was fastened closely about his waist or throat.
Oje was called down to the barricaded entrance and the situation briefly explained to him. The Indian stepped close to the boulder and listened for a long time for sounds from the inside. Then he turned to, the boys and shook his head gravely. "Don't you ever tell me they've gone and got away!" exclaimed Tommy. "Why, they couldn't get away unless they walked through forty feet of solid rock!
Oje waited until the sound of the fellow's footsteps were heard no more, and then arose to his feet, Without speaking a word, he, too, faced toward the hills, passing through the snow at a swinging gait. "What's he going to do now?" queried Sandy. "I wish I knew!" replied Thede. "Say, look here!" the boy continued, "hadn't we better make a break for the cabin?
"And he killed him, too!" answered Tommy. Entirely unconcerned, the Indian would have struck off into the forest, but the boys urged upon him the necessity of partaking of food. With a stoical exclamation of indifference, Oje finally followed them into the cabin and seated himself before the open fire. Antoine was quite dead.
They had done what they could to protect the interests of their patrons and themselves by keeping their mission a strict secret. So far as Ned knew, the only persons who had knowledge of what they were doing and where they were going were his mother and sister, Alan's family, and Major Honeywell and Senor Oje.
"If they'll do any good!" repeated Sandy. "You bring 'em out here and we'll see whether they will or not." "Thede ran to the door of the cavern and looked out, calling softly to the Indian as he did so. Oje was nowhere to be seen! "I wonder where that Indian went?" the boy asked. "He probably got busy after some one!" Will replied.
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