The cup of her indignation, which had long been full, was now overflowing.

She slowly returned to her home in Guayave, brooding over schemes of revenge, and formed the determination to betray her husband into the hands of justice.

She called upon Dr.Duncan, a rich planter and a magistrate, and offered to guide him to the spot where Jack Shadow, the daring rebel, was concealed.
Within a couple of hours after the magistrate received the welcome information, he was on his way to the mountains, accompanied by Marie and a guard of soldiers.

They entered the thicket on the side of the mountain, where Jack Shadow had taken up his abode.

They came to a precipitous ledge of rocks.