He tried to ask it frankly, but a devil of malice was in his eyes.
"I don't know--I can't think! Angus, what did Dan mean?"
"I warned you of what he was capable," he said.
She caught his hands, stammering: "You are all that is left to me. You will stand between me and danger, Angus? You will protect me? But wait! I could go to Harrigan. I know that if I plead with him, I can win him away from the mutineers!"
"Kate, you are hysterical! Don't you see that a man who is capable of planning a wholesale murder in the night would be quite able to lie to you? No, no! Whatever you do, you must promise me not to speak a word of this to anyone, most of all, to Harrigan."
"I will promise anything--I will do anything. It all rests with you, Angus."
"And when we strike at the mutineers--if Harriga
