"Is there a servant woman, also?"
He looked at me oddly.
"The Caughnawaga girl came back."
"What!"
"The Scottish girl, Penelope."
"Came back! When?"
"Oh, that was long ago—after the flag left.... It seems she had meant to travel only to Mayfield with them.... She had not said so to anybody. But in the dark o' dawn she rides in on your mare, Kaya, having travelled all night long."
"'Why,' says I, 'what do you here on John Drogue's horse in the dark o' dawn?'
"'If there's danger,' says she calmly, 'this sick man should have a horse to carry him to Mayfield fort.'
"Which was true enough; and I said so, and stabled your mare where Lady Johnson's horses had left a warm and empty manger."