His capture by the three and the manner in which he had been compelled to disclose the letter had been humiliating, and Robert did not doubt that the man would seek revenge.

He shivered a little, feeling that as a prisoner he was in a measure helpless.

Then his back stiffened.
"I'm glad to see, Garay, that you're where you belong--with the French," he called out.

"I hope you didn't suffer any more from hunger in the woods when Willet, the Onondaga and I let you go." The spy came closer, and his look was so full of venom that young Lennox, despite himself, shuddered.
"Time makes all things even," he said.

"I don't forget how you and your friends held me in your power in the forest, but here you are a prisoner.