What, indeed, could she say?
She did not doubt that Luck had seen her the night before, and had seen also Bill Holmes when he left camp or returned--perhaps both.

She could not tell him that Bill Holmes had gone out to meet Ramon, for that, she felt instinctively, was a secret which Ramon trusted her not to betray.

She could not tell Wagalexa Conka, either, that she met Ramon often when the camp was asleep.

He would think that as bad as meeting Bill Holmes.

She knew that he did not like Ramon, but merely used him and his men and horses and cattle for a price, to better his pictures.