danger was to come to him from this proceeding.

When the Indian had reached the spot where the dead grizzly bear lay,
be paused in the greatest wonderment. Here was something which he did
not understand.

The dead carcass showed that somebody had slain him, and the shot in
the eye looked as though it had been done by an experienced hunter. A
few minutes' examination of the ground showed further that he who had
fired the shot was in the tree at the time, after which he had
descended and fled.

All this took but a few minutes for the savage to discover, when he
gave a whoop of triumph at his success in probing the matter, and
started off on the trail.

Unluckily, this led straight toward the bowlder behind which the boy
had concealed himself; and ere he could find a new hiding-place the
Indian was upon him.

At sight of the boy, the savage gave a whoop, and raised his tomahawk;
but the youngster was expecting this, and instantly raising his gun,
he discharged it full into his heart.

As he heard the shriek of the Indian, and saw him throw up his arms,
be did not wait to bear or see anything else, but instantly fled with
might and main, scarcely looking or knowing whither he was going.

A short time after he found himself at the base of the mountain, very
near the spot where he had first come, and glancing again toward the