Life had been to me pleasant enough--without care, without misery, open, strong and free; our people were not as those others which had learned the white man's vices.

We loved the hunt, the camp-fires, the sacred feasts, the legends of the Mighty Men; and the earth was a good friend, whom we knew as the child knows its mother." She paused.

Something seemed to arrest her attention.

Frank followed her eyes.

She was watching Captain Vidall and Marion.