The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 13 Page 40

And she asked me to guide her to Catharines-town. And I have refused.

“No, Loskiel, I have never doubted that she was of the Hidden People. And for that reason have I been patient and kind when she has beset me with her pleading that I show to her the trail to Catharines-town.

“But I will not. For although in rifle dress she might go with us — nay, nor do I even doubt that she might endure the war-path as well as any stripling eager for honour and his first scalp taken — I will not have her blood upon my hands.

“For if she stir thither — if she venture within the Great Shadow — the ghouls of Amochol will know it. And they will take her and slay her on their altar, spite of us all — spite of you and me and your generals and colonels, and all your troops and riflemen —