There had been no hesitation and no doubt.

She had come to him unequivocal and sure.

Without seeing, without hearing, she knew Cassidy was stealing upon him through the night.
In the darkness Jolly Roger sat up, his heart beating fast.

Without effort, and with no thought of the necessity of proof, Yellow Bird had given him a test of her power.

It had been a spontaneous and unstaged thing, a woman's heart reaching out for him--as she had promised that it would.