"Caterine has friends here, Shawn.

What is your opinion of her ?" "Yes," observed another, "she has friends here; but, then, she has enemies too, men who have a good right to hate the ground she walks on." "Whatever my opinion of Caterine Collins may be," said Shawn, "I will keep it to myself; I only say, that the man who injures her is no friend of mine.

Isn't she a woman?
And, surely, we are not to quarrel with, or injure a defenceless woman." By this piece of policy Shawn gained considerable advantage.

His purpose was to preserve such an ascendency over that cunning and treacherous woman as might enable him to make her useful in working out his own designs, his object being, not only on that account, but for the sake of his own personal safety, to stand well with both her friends and her enemies.
Other matters were discussed, and plans of vengeance proposed and assented to, the details of which would afford our readers but slight gratification.

After their projects had been arranged, this wild and savage, but melancholy group, dispersed, and so intimately were they acquainted with the intricacies of cover and retreat which then characterized the surface of the country, that in a few minutes they seemed rather to have vanished like spectres than to have disappeared like living men.