The, sultry, drowsy, summer days passed with no untoward event to mar their slumbering tranquillity.

Life for the newcomers to the Village of Peace brought a content, the like of which they had never dreamed of.

Mr.Wells at once began active work among the Indians, preaching to them through an interpreter; Nell and Kate, in hours apart from household duties, busied themselves brightening their new abode, and Jim entered upon the task of acquainting himself with the modes and habits of the redmen.

Truly, the young people might have found perfect happiness in this new and novel life, if only Joe had returned.

His disappearance and subsequent absence furnished a theme for many talks and many a quiet hour of dreamy sadness.