While she occupied herself with her many duties, she never for a moment forgot the threat of Shining Iron.

But her cares and anxieties for her husband's safety were soon over.

She had not long been a wife before her enemy lay a corpse; his life was a forfeit to his love for her, and Red Earth had a woman's heart.

Although she could but rejoice that the fears which had tormented her were now unnecessary, yet when she remembered how devotedly the dead warrior had loved her, how anxiously he had tried to please her, she could not but shed a few tears of sorrow for his death.

But they were soon wiped away--not for the world would she have had her husband see them.
The oldest sons of Good Road were true to their word--and the son of Old Bets was not the only subject for their vengeance.