But Richard said to her: "Mother, I fancy you don't quite grasp the position.

The girl is the daughter of a chief, and the descendant of a family of chiefs, perhaps through many generations.

In her own land she has been used to respect, and has been looked up to pretty generally.

Her garments are, I fancy, considered very smart in the Hudson's Bay country; and a finely decorated blanket like hers is expensive up there.

You see, we have to take the thing by comparison; so please give the girl a chance." And Mrs.Armour answered wearily, "I suppose you are right, Richard; you generally are in the end, though why you should be I do not know, for you never see anything of the world any more, and you moon about among the cottagers.