When Mrs.Townley came to her and took her hand and kissed her, she shivered, and then caught her about the shoulders lightly, but was silent.

After a little she said: "Come--come to my wigwam, and talk with me." She said it with a strange little smile, for now she recognised that the word wigwam was not to be used in her new life.

But Mrs.Townley whispered: "Ask Marion to come too." Lali hesitated, and then said, a little maliciously: "Marion, will you come to my wigwam ?" Marion ran to her, caught her about the waist, and replied gaily: "Yes, we will have a pow-wow--is that right--is pow-wow right ?" The Indian girl shook her head with a pretty vagueness, and vanished with them.

General Armour walked up and down the room briskly, then turned on his wife and said: "Wife, it was a brutal thing: Frank doesn't deserve to be--the father of her child." But Lali had moods--singular moods.

She indulged in one three days after the arrival of Marion and Mrs.Townley.She had learned to ride with the side-saddle, and wore her riding-dress admirably.