Sam, a big, powerful man, was soon bound and gagged and his bulk dragged off to the tent among the bushes.
"Now for Davy," muttered Bonner, stretching his great arms in the pure relish of power.

"There will be something doing around your heart, Miss Babe-in-the-Woods, in a very few minutes." He chuckled as he crept into the cabin, first having listened intently for sounds.

For some minutes he lay quietly with his ear to the floor.
In that time he solved one of the problems confronting him.

The man Davy was a son of old Mrs.Rank's murderer, and the "old woman" who kept watch with him was his mother, wife of the historic David.

It was she who had held the lantern, no doubt, while David Wolfe chopped her own mother to mincemeat.