The Sagamore brings you food.

Is that true ?" "Yes," she said sullenly.
"And you have kept in touch with us ever since we started ?" "With Mayaro." "Why ?" "I have told you that I had no wish to travel in your company." "But for protection----" "Protection! I have heard that, too, from men.

It is ever on men's lips--that word meaning damnation.

I thank you, Mr.Loskiel, I require no protection." "Do you distrust Lieutenant Boyd or me?
Or what ?" "Men! And you twain are two of them." "You fear such men as we are!" I demanded impatiently.
"I know nothing of you," she answered, "save that you are men." "Do you mean Mr.Boyd--and his thoughtless gallantry----" "I mean men! All men! And he differs in nothing from the rest that I can see.

Which is why I travel without your leave on my own affairs and by myself--spite of the Iroquois." She added bitterly; "And it is known to civilization that the Iroquois are to be trusted where the white man is not!" Her meaning was plain enough now.