The Tehuas would reap many scalps; she would have had her revenge; and the deed could be so performed as to make those at the Rito believe that the Navajos were the perpetrators.

This was her plan, and she did not feel the slightest scruple or compunction.

For years she had been, among her own people, the butt of numberless insults and mortifications.

Now it had gone so far that her life even was in imminent peril.

Ere this should be lost, she would prove to her enemies that she was alive, and terribly alive! To reconnoitre the ground, to study every detail of it, to store her memory with everything that might be useful or valuable in the lay of the land, was what she had come for now.