It belonged to that white man, that awful white man! I never saw him before; but I knew him." "Girty!" said Heckewelder, who had come in with his quiet step.

"He looked in at the window.

Calm yourself, Nellie.

The renegade has gone." The incident worried them all at the time, and made Nell nervous for several days; but as Girty had disappeared, and nothing more was heard of him, gradually they forgot.

Kate's wedding day dawned with all the little party well and happy.