Wrapping his robe again about him, the Teton motioned to the trapper to follow, and stalked haughtily from the lodge, muttering, as he went-- "Mahtoree is very wise! What nation has so great a chief as the Dahcotahs ?" Tachechana stood frozen into a statue of humility.

Her mild and usually joyous countenance worked, as if the struggle within was about to dissolve the connection between her soul and that more material part, whose deformity was becoming so loathsome.

Inez and Ellen were utterly ignorant of the nature of her interview with her husband, though the quick and sharpened wits of the latter led her to suspect a truth, to which the entire innocence of the former furnished no clue.

They were both, however, about to tender those sympathies, which are so natural to, and so graceful in the sex, when their necessity seemed suddenly to cease.

The convulsions in the features of the young Sioux disappeared, and her countenance became cold and rigid, like chiselled stone.