"I am glad of this; but will your chief keep faith, or will he play the traitor for a third time and escape giving me up through some trick?"
"No, for if he did he would surely be run down, as he knows, by the miners, even if your life was the forfeit."
"I hope it may prove true that I am to be ransomed, and I will be ready to go with you; but where is your chief?"
"He is in his other camp."
"Then he has two?"
"Yes."
"Am I to be blindfolded and bound again when you are taking me from here?"
"Such are his orders, Miss Seldon."
"He fears that I, a young girl, may lead a force upon his secret retreat?"
"That is just what he fears, Miss Seldon."