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"Most wonderful!" said Middleton, when he saw the complete success of
the means by which they had been rescued from a danger that he had
conceived to be unavoidable. "The thought was a gift from Heaven, and
the hand that executed it should be immortal!"
"Old trapper," cried Paul, thrusting his fingers through his shaggy
locks, "I have lined many a loaded bee into his hole, and know
something of the nature of the woods, but this is robbing a hornet of
his sting without touching the insect!"
"It will do--it will do," returned the old man, who after the first
moment of his success seemed to think no more of the exploit; "now get
the horses in readiness. Let the flames do their work for a short half
hour, and then we will mount. That time is needed to cool the meadow,
for these unshod Teton beasts are as tender on the hoof as a
barefooted girl."
Middleton and Paul, who considered this unlooked-for escape as a
species of resurrection, patiently awaited the time the trapper
mentioned with renewed confidence in the infallibility of his
judgment.


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