"You're right," said Carl with decision. "It upset him a lot. But that night by the old chief's camp fire, Philip discovered--"
"Yes?"
"That some imperfection in the stilted wording of the hidden paper had led us all astray. Philip said he could not be sure--there was so much fuss and trouble and misunderstanding--but the old chief had nursed Theodomir through some dreadful illness and knew it all. They were staunch friends. Norman Westfall came into the Glades hunting with a friend. He persuaded your mother to go away with him, but they went--alone!"
"You mean--"
"That they did not take a child away from the Indian village as the paper in the candlestick declares--"
"And the daughter of Theodomir?"
"Is Keela. They left her by the old chief's wigwam."
Diane stared.