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A PROWLER. 81 village. Besides, Alph had too good an opinion of the powers of some of the old squaws in a fight, to care to arouse them. Resolved to communicate with Flora at all hazards, he waited for the night. CHAPTER VIII. A SPY IN THE CAMP. Tue night came, and, luckily for them, it was dark and gloomy. During the day, Alph had been taking observations, and thought he knew the exact position of every lodge in the village. The savages would be very quiet, as they had tired themselves at the pow-wow on the previous hight, and im- bibed more “strong water” than was good for them. The two spies, having bidden adieu to. the others, and in- structed them how to proceed in. case they got into trouble, crawled out ‘of the cavern, and began to cross the slope toward the village. Their rapid pace soon brought them near it, when. they lay down upon the earth and listened. Nothing could be heard to*indicate that any were awake in the village, and they crept cautiously forward, and soon found a snug po- sition between two. lodges, in the outskirts. Here Alph de- cided to leave Tiny, instructing him to remain very quiet, and. on no account to leave the place until he returned. Tiny promising compliance, Alph left him, and bending his body to a stooping position, and keeping in the shadow of the lodges, he made his va into the very center of the vil-. ape luge. Here he paused to collect his thoughts. He wanted to find the lodge in which Flora was confined, and as the night was of pitchy darkness, eyes were of but little use to him. He remembered that the lodge was of peculiar shape, being eight- _ sided, and having three poles. As he stepped forward a little, his foot touched someyielding substance. _ Stooping, he found by the sense of feeling that. it was a rope, stretched from the top of a lodge, and fastened toa pin in the ground. He knew that.the ledge of Me-rah was the only one which was fastened comicbooks.co 7