Could he have been captured? if so, what should Alec and I do?  It would be impossible to rescue him--indeed, it was too probable that he had been immediately put to death by the Blackfeet, and that we might ourselves, should we remain in the neighbourhood, be killed.  I came therefore to the conclusion that we must continue our search for the hunters to the eastward, keeping at the same time a watchful eye in the direction in which we had seen the fire of our supposed enemies.  I say supposed enemies, because I still had a lingering hope that, after all, the fire might be at the hunters' camp.