"But then—they might pour out vengeance upon him. I could not take the risk of anything happening to David."
"You are too timid, Helka. Such straits as we are in demand risks."
"We might poison those horrible, savage dogs. Lena might do that without her own knowledge. I could fix something. Do you know anything about poisons?"
"Not much," replied Cora, "but I suppose if we got anything sure to be poison it would do." Hope sprang into her heart. "How did you get me indoors?"
"They carried you. The air was too strong for you after such close confinement."
"No, it was that automobile on the road. The sight of it simply overpowered me. Oh, how I wanted to call to those in it!"
"Poor girl! Since you came I, too, have wanted to be free, and I am not as much afraid as I used to be."
"We are in America, and have no right to fear." Cora thought at the same time that probably her own fearlessness accounted for her present plight.
"If we could poison the dogs, and then slide down from one of these windows in the dark, perhaps we could get away," said Helka. "But what would happen when we found ourselves out in the dark woods? If they found us——"
"There must be no 'if.' They must not find us. I am afraid of nothing but of this imprisonment."