“Strange,” said Kate, thoughtfully. “I cannot understand it. He must have some motive in entrapping you from your home and friends and bringing you here.”
“I will tell you all the particulars.”
Then Virginia told the story of her abduction.
Kate listened attentively.
The story puzzled her. She could not understand the double abduction.
“Have you no suspicion as to who this man is that pretended to rescue you from your first captors, but in reality led you into the hands of the second party?”
“No,” Virginia said.
“The false guide was Simon Girty.”
Virginia uttered a sharp cry as though she had received a terrible wound.
“For Heaven’s sake be silent or it will cost us both our lives!” cried Kate, quickly and with great caution.