Plans of all kinds he resolved in his mind.

The best one he believed lay through Whispering Winds.

First to find the whereabouts of Girty; kill him if possible, or at least free Kate, and then get away with her and his Indian bride.

Sanguine as he invariably was, he could not but realize the peril of this undertaking.

If Whispering Winds betrayed her people, it meant death to her as well as to him.