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Nevertheless I have instructed Sergeant Plaskett to continue the search. If any such girl should be found, which would surprise me, she will be sent out. You can go." Inspector Egerton with half his force started back for the Kakisa River en route to Fort Enterprise that same afternoon.
Yet he had constituted himself her protector, and he would hardly let her go without him. It did not promise to be easy to hoodwink both Plaskett and Grampierre. What she was going to do when she found Nesis, Colina did not stop to consider. The thing to do was to find the girl, and trust to pluck and mother wit for the rest. Colina finally thought she saw her way clear.
Jim Plaskett, Mabyn and Rina went on the first; and Sandy Arkess, Garth, Natalie and I followed on the other. The other two fellows were to drive all the horses back over the prairie. Say, that was quite a journey! Garth was getting better; and we all felt pretty good, sitting round and swapping yarns, and looking at the scenery, while the current carried us down.
They were told that if they remained at home they would not be molested. But if they attempted to escape they would immediately be arrested." "They're not trying to escape!" cried Colina. "I don't believe they are," said Plaskett. "But I've got to send them home. Orders are orders." But this was not the kind of argument to use with a young woman whose blood is up.
Plaskett now believed that she had gone home with Germain, and Germain believed she had gone back to Plaskett. Marya had mounted on their pack-horse. They had not gone far in the trail, when she signified that they were to strike off to the left. Colina pulled up. "Cora," she said, "it's not true that I am going to get help from the police.
I can't take the responsibility." Colina shrugged. "Then the Grampierres and I must go by ourselves," she said. Plaskett became even stiffer and more uncomfortable. "Germain Grampierre and his brother had no business to leave home," he said. "By their own confessions they are implicated in the raid on the Company's flour-mill.
In less than half an hour they started for home. As they mounted the hill, Plaskett gallantly waved his cap from below. The bush swallowed them. Colina was thinking: "What shall I do if she is afraid, and doesn't come?"
"Sorry," he said uncomfortably. "I have explicit orders from Inspector Egerton not to allow any communication between these people here and the other branches of the tribe." "Why not?" asked Colina. Plaskett shrugged deprecatingly. "Not for me to say. I can guess, perhaps. It's not possible to lock them all up, but these people are under arrest just the same.
You ought to have heard Jim Plaskett crack up Garth's pluck and Jim knows! "We reached the canyon about half-past six in the morning. I'd heard of that place from the Indians. Say, it was a fearsome spot! a kind of crooked, gaping split in the prairie like the pictures in Dante's Inferno.
In the same graphic, simple way she learned the story of Ambrose's imprisonment and how Nesis got him out. "Come!" she cried, extending her hand. "We'll see what Sergeant Plaskett has to say to this!" But when Marya understood that she was expected to repeat her story to the policeman, a frantic, stubborn terror took possession of her.
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