"Why, no, o' course I don't."
"Are you sure?"
"Why, Kate, I know you couldn't do a thing like that. Don't yuh think any more about it."
"I believe you do, just the same. Tom, no matter how much I disliked a person I wouldn't betray him."
"I believe yuh. Honest, I do."
Dorothy and O'Leary passing at this juncture, Loudon lifted his hat. Kate turned and looked after the pair. When her eyes once more met Loudon's there was a faint trouble in their black depths.
"Who are they?" she queried.
"Cap'n Burr's daughter an' Pete O'Leary."
"Oh." There was deep meaning in that "oh."
"She lives up yonder a ways. Mis' Mace knows her, I guess."