Chapter Ten
Impossible!” Rideaux spat. “They will roast you alive!”
“Then I will shout out my questions from the stake,” Duncan shot back. “One way or the other I will see the family of Skanawati.” He had been waiting at the Frenchman’s gate at dawn, seeking a guide. “The west branch, thirty miles upriver.” A weary Rideaux, looking haggard, had gestured him inside for a cup of birch tea.
“What use could they possibly be to you?”
“I must know what Skanawati has been doing these past weeks. I must know why his adopted sister and her new husband were sent to the western boundary tree. I must know why Skanawati sent men out to investigate old markings on the Warriors Path. I must know what he thought he would learn from the ghosts there.”
Duncan dared not reveal the most important reason
