The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 8 Page 4

“So you’ve done this business every night as soon as I slept,” said I. “You’ve crept beyond our outer pickets, risking your life, imperilling the success of this army, merely to satisfy your vanity. This is not well, Mayaro.”

He said proudly: “Mayaro is safe. What warrior of the Cat-People need a Sagamore of the Siwanois dread?”

“Do you count them warriors then, or wizards?”

“Demons have teeth and claws. Look upon their scalp-locks, Loskiel!”

I strove to subdue my rising anger.

“You are the only reliable guide in the army today who can take us straight to Catharines-town,” I said. “If we lose you