We'll get him." And the lines in his face reminded his wife of how he looked that night three years before when he cowed the great bully Perkins into submission at her father's door.
Long they sat and planned.

As the Inspector said, there must be no failure; hence the plan must provide for every possible contingency.

By far the keenest of the three in mental activity was Mandy.

By a curious psychological process the Indian Chief, who an hour before had awakened in her admiration and a certain romantic interest, had in a single moment become an object of loathing, almost of hatred.

That he should be in this land planning for her people, for innocent and defenseless women and children, the horrors of massacre filled her with a fierce anger.
But a deeper analysis would doubtless have revealed a personal element in her anger and loathing.