any I think fit to ask you — every one of them — or I turn you over to my Senecas!”

“You dare not!”

“Answer me, or you shall soon learn what I dare and dare not do!”

Boyd, pale as a sheet, said slowly:

“I do believe you capable of every infamy, Mr. Butler. I do believe, now, that the murderer of little children will sacrifice me to these Senecas if I do not answer his dishonorable questions. And so, believing this, and always holding your person in the utmost loathing and contempt, I refuse to reveal to you one single item concerning the army in which I have the honour and privilege to serve.”

“Take him!” said Butler to the crowding Senecas.