about two o'clock in the afternoon
`` I can see , Tayoga , that you 're hoping for a chance to settle that score between you and the Ojibway , '' said the hunter . `` Maybe you 'll get it this time , and maybe you wo n't , but I 'm willing to take the trail after him , and so is Robert here . We may stop a lot of mischief . '' It was then about two o'clock in the afternoon , and , as Tayoga said that Tandakora 's trail was not more than a few hours old , they pushed on rapidly , hoping to stalk his camp that very night . The traces soon curved back toward St. Luc 's and they knew they were right in their surmise that an ambush was being laid by the Ojibway . He and his warriors would halt in the dense bush beside the great trail and shoot down any who followed . `` We 'll shatter his innocent little plan , '' said Willet , his spirits mounting at the prospect .