She informed Joe that she knew the direction from which Girty always returned to the village.

No doubt she could find his retreat.

With a cunning that showed her Indian nature, she suggested a plan which Joe at once saw was excellent.

After Joe got his horse, she would ride around the village, then off into the woods, where she could leave the horse and return to say he had run away from her.

As was their custom during afternoons, they would walk leisurely along the brook, and, trusting to the excitement created by the councils, get away unobserved.