Zane, in his hearty voice.

"She is tamed at last.

No excuses, Alfred, in to dinner you go." Col.

Zane pushed the young people up the steps before him, and stopping on the threshold while he knocked the ashes from his pipe, he smiled contentedly.
AFTERWORD.
Betty lived all her after life on the scene of her famous exploit.
She became a happy wife and mother.

When she grew to be an old lady, with her grandchildren about her knee, she delighted to tell them that when a girl she had run the gauntlet of the Indians.
Col.