"No."
"You intended to let me shift for myself out here in this wilderness?"
"Yes, after this Indian guides you to the river-trail," said Brandt, indicating with his finger the nearest savage.
"I get what you frontier men call the double-cross'?"
"That's it," replied Brandt with a hard laugh, in which Legget joined.
A short pause ensued.
"What will you do with the girl?"
"That's my affair."
"Marry her?" Mordaunt's voice was low and quiet.
"No!" cried Brandt. "She flaunted my love in my face, scorned me! She saw that borderman strike me, and by God! I'll get even. I'll keep her here in the woods until I'm tired of her, and when her beauty fades I'll turn her over to Legget."