“If they waited until the war-party returned, they could not tear the pale-face girls from their captors,” continued the Indian girl, after a brief pause.
“Then you think that they intend to carry out their plots to-night?”
“Yes.”
“What of my guards?”
“They are the chief’s friends; they too are traitors!”
“Then why did Red Eagle place them here?”
“He did not. The Big Medicine put them where they stand.”
“Would he betray Red Eagle?”
“He would.”
“What dark-faced treachery! I have fallen into a den of traitors, and treachery fills the very air I breathe. But the boy?”