When she bounded up the steps he flung open that door and she ran into his arms.
"Betts, for God's sake! What's this ?" he cried.
"We are out of powder.

Empty a keg of powder into a table cloth.
Quick! I've not a second to lose," she answered, at the same time slipping off her outer skirt.

She wanted nothing to hinder that run for the block-house.
Jonathan Zane heard Betty's first words and disappeared into the magazine-room.

He came out with a keg in his arms.

With one blow of an axe he smashed in the top of the keg.