But she made the mistake of construing preparations to abduct as arrangements to elope.

As the San Reve read the portents, Storri planned to meet Miss Harley that very night; they would fly together, the _Zulu Queen_ offering a sure means of baffling pursuit.
The San Reve, biased of her jealous fears, had foreseen in the message to Steamboat Dan some such end as this.

It was all so plain and sure to the angry, heart-broken San Reve.

The false Storri had done what he might to cover his intentions by daily lies as to how and when he, with the San Reve, should sail for France and Russia! Ah, yes; the San Reve saw through those lies! While she listened to his purring mendacities she must struggle to refrain from casting his untruths in his teeth.
Bridle herself she did; but she watched and reflected and resolved the wrongful more.

Now with the coming of the _Zulu Queen_, the one thing certain was that she, the despised San Reve, would be cast off, abandoned.