"Surely it is not going to demand a great amount of courage to face that number, Josephine ?" "It is going to take all the courage in the world to face one of them," she replied in a low, strained voice.

"Can you make them out?
Are they white men or Indians ?" "The light is not right--I can't decide," he said, after a moment's scrutiny.

"If they are Indians--" "They are friends," she interrupted.

"Jean--my Jean Croisset--left me hiding here five days ago.

He is part French and part Indian.