Chapter 24
LEAVING CAMP.Afterward, ’Tana never could remember clearly the incidents of
the few days that followed. Only once more she entered the cabin of
death, and that was when Mr. Haydon and Mr. Seldon returned with
all haste to the camp, after meeting with Captain Leek and the
Indian boatman.
Then, as some of the men offered to go with them to view the
remains of the outlaw, she came forward.
“No. I will take them,” she said.
When Mr. Haydon demurred, feeling that a young girl should be
kept as much as possible from such scenes, she had laid her hand on
Seldon’s arm.
“Come!” she said, and they went with her.
But when inside the door, she did not approach the
blanket-covered form stretched on the couch; only pointed toward
it, and stood herself like a guard at the entran
