"Red Hatchet loves her?"
"Yes, and I'll tell you now what I never did before, that he once saved her from some Indians who had captured her. He has always loved her since, and has begged me to give her to him, but I would not tell you, as I feared trouble between you and the chief. Only a few days ago he threatened if she did not marry him he would destroy the settlements in revenge, and now you have placed her in his hands. Do you not see that you are a fool, Herbert Bernard?" and the settler spoke almost savagely.
"I certainly do; but I shall rescue her from him, see if I do not," was the determined rejoinder.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The more that Herbert Bernard thought over the matter the more he felt that his father was right, that he had, indeed, made a fool of himself.
That Red Hatchet was always a welcome visitor at the ranch he had known, as well as that he seemed to be always most friendly toward Jennie; but that the Sioux chief had ever hoped to win her for his wife had never crossed the mind of the young settler.
He had never been let into the secret of Jennie's rescue by the young chief, and more, that he was in love with her.
That he had now intrusted her to the care of the Sioux nearly broke his heart.