He too had become a hunter of skill, and hence what he said might have some merit.
"It seems strange that Henry Ware should come so suddenly when he might have come before," he remarked with apparent carelessness to Lucy Upton.
She looked at him with sharp interest.

The same thought had entered her mind, but she did not like to hear Braxton Wyatt utter it.
"At all events he is about to save us from a great danger," she said.
Wyatt laughed and his thin long features contracted in an ugly manner.
"It is a tale to impress us and perhaps to cover up something else," he replied.

"There is not an Indian within two hundred miles of us.

I know, I have been through the woods and there is no sign." She turned away, liking his words little and his manner less.

She stopped presently by a corner of one of the houses on a slight elevation whence she could see a long distance beyond the palisade.