The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 13 Page 43

I asked.

“I can only guess, Loskiel, for I never saw her. But I believe she must have been with the army. Somehow, Sir William’s Senecas got hold of her and took her to Catharines-town. And if the little Lois was born there or at Yndaia, or perhaps among the Lakes before the mother was made prisoner, I do not know. Only this I gather, that when the Cats of Amochol heard there was a child, they demanded it for a sacrifice. And there must have been some Seneca there — doubtless some adopted Seneca of a birth more civilized — who told the mother, and who was persuaded by her to make of it a Hidden One.

“How long it lay concealed, and in whose care, how can I know? But it is certain that Amochol learned that it had been hidden, and sent his Cat-People out to