When in the morning she related the occurrences of the night to Lightfoot, the Indian expressed no surprise, and exhibited no alarm. Nor did she attempt to offer any explanation seeming to treat it as a matter of course. Although this might be unsatisfactory to Hellena in some respects, it was perhaps after all, quite as well for her that Lightfoot did not exhibit any alarm at what had occurred, as by doing so she imparted some of her own confidence to her more timid companion. All this while Black Bill had not been thought of but after a while he crawled out from his bunk, his eyes twice their usual size, and coming up to Hellena, he said: "Misses, misses, I seed do debble last night wid a great fire-brand in his hand, and he went all round de cabe, lookin' for massa Flint, to burn him up, but he couldn't fine him so he went away agin. Now I know he's comin' after massa Flint, cause he didn't touch nobody else." "Did he frighten you?" asked Hellena. "No; but I kept mighty still, and shut my eyes when he come to look at me, but he didn't say noffen, so I know'd it wasn't dis darkey he was after." This statement of the negro's satisfied Hellena that she had not been dreaming when she witnessed the apparition of the Indian. On further questioning Bill, she found he had not witnessed any of the horrid phantoms that had visited her in her dreams. As soon as Hellena could do so without attracting attention, she took a lamp and examined the walls in every direction to see if she could discover any where a crevice large enough for a person to pass through, but she could find nothing of the sort. The walls were rough and broken in many parts, but there was nothing like what she was in search of. She next questioned Lightfoot about it, asking her if there was any other entrance to the cave beside the one through which they had entered. But the Indian woman gave her no satisfaction, simply telling her that she might take the lamp and examine for herself. As Hellena had already done this, she was of course as much in the dark as ever. When Captain Flint visited the cave again as he did on the following day, Hellena would have related to him the occurrences of the previous night, but she felt certain that he would only laugh at it as something called up by her excited imagination, or treat it as a story made up for the purpose of exciting his sympathy. Or perhaps invented for the purpose of arousing his superstition in order to make him leave the cave, and take her to some place where escape would be more easy. So she concluded to say nothing to him about it. CHAPTER XI.