"Big Chief will beat him if he lies," she said calmly.
"He must not. I won't have it. Don't you know he is of your own blood?"
"No, Dad—is he a relative?"
"Your own and only first cousin."
"What! Has Aunt Ranna a son?"
"She has, indeed."
"Why didn't we know before?"
"Family reasons."
"Why isn't he with his mother?"
Mr. Devering stopped short despite his burden, and didn't I pull up closer and prick up my pony ears. Now I was going to hear something interesting about my boy.