Let them get a hint of our preparations, and there will be petitions to Council and a howling about treason, and in a week you will be in gaol, Mr.Garvald.So we must move cannily, as you Scots say." That conversation made me wary, and I got Faulkner to keep a special guard on the place when I was absent.

At the worst, he could summon Mercer, who would bring a rough crew from the water-side to his aid.
Then once more I disappeared into the woods.
In these days a new Shalah revealed himself.

I think he had been watching me closely for the past months, and slowly I had won his approval.

He showed it by beginning to talk as he loped by my side in our forest wanderings.

The man was like no Indian I have ever seen.