CHAPTER XV. 

THE ISLAND REFUGE. 

The night was intensely cold and still and the stars shone brightly through the bare boughs overhead. "Are you sure you are going all right?" Nelly asked Harold. "It is so dark here that it seems impossible to know which way we are going." "You can trust the Indians," Harold said. "Even if there was not a star to be seen they could find their way by some mysterious instinct. How you are grown, Nelly! Your voice does not seem much changed, and I am longing to see your face." 

"I expect you are more changed than I am, Harold," the girl answered. "You have been going through so much since we last met, and you seem to have grown so tall and big. Your voice has changed very much, too; it is the voice of a man. How in the world did you find us here?" 

Pearson had gone on ahead to speak to the Seneca, but he now joined them again. 

"You mustn't talk," he said. "I hope there's no redskins within five miles of us now, but there's never any saying where they may be." 

There was, Harold thought, a certain sharpness in the hunter's voice, which told of a greater anxiety than would be caused by the very slight risk of the quietly spoken words being heard by passing redskins, and he wondered what it could be. 

They were now, he calculated, within a mile of the hiding place where they had left the boat, and they had every reason for believing that none of the Indians would be likely to have followed the shore so far. That they would be pursued and that, in so heavily laden a canoe, they would have great difficulty in escaping, he was well aware, but he relied on the craft of the hunters and Senecas for throwing their pursuers off the trail.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What was the distance from the hiding place?
2. At what distance could the hiding place be found?
3. Where exactly was the hiding place?
Q2:
1. What did the group leave at the hiding place?
2. What was stored at the hiding place?
3. What was placed at the hiding place?
Q3:
1. What didn't the group want?
2. What did the group wish to avoid?
3. What was the group trying not to encounter?
Q4:
1. What did the group wish was five miles away?
2. What did the group want to be five miles away?
3. For the group, what would be best to be five miles distance?
Q5:
1. When in the day was it?
2. What part of the day was it?
3. What was the time?
Q6:
1. Was the weather warm?
2. Was the sun shining?
3. Was the group having warm weather?
Q7:
1. Was the sky full of stars?
2. Were there a lot of stars out?
3. Had the stars all come out?
Q8:
1. Who was trustworthy?
2. Who could one put their trust in?
3. Who was reliable?
Q9:
1. Who said one could count on the Indians?
2. According to whom were the Indians trustworthy?
3. Who said that one could trust the Indians?
Q10:
1. Who was Harold reassuring?
2. Who did Harold want to reassure?
3. Who was Harold attempting to calm?
Q11:
1. Who went before Nelly and Harold?
2. Who travelled prior to Nelly and Harold?
3. Who did Nelly and Harold follow?
Q12:
1. Why did Pearson go before Nelly and Harold?
2. For what reason did Pearson go before Nelly and Harold?
3. What was Pearson's reason for going before Nelly and Harold?
Q13:
1. Did Pearson return?
2. Did Pearson come back?
3. Did Pearson rejoin Nelly and Harold?
