Just why great generals and strategists like the York governor and Napoleon Bonaparte give their sentries lanthorns to carry has always been something of a mystery to Cree scouts. It was a startling blunder to Yellow Hair and he took advantage of it on the instant.
A man staring into a fire is blind to the outer darkness. A sentry carrying a lanthorn limits his view to about ten circular feet of ground and all else is covered by a black wall that shuts down abruptly at the yellow border.
Yellow Hair stepped out of his cover and sprinted so silently that his feet scarcely touched the ground. He was in full view of the sentries and one of them was staring right at him, but past the flicker in the lanthorn.
“M’ybe the blighter ’as hescaped,” said the intrepid Roger, his blinded eyes fixed
