"I don't know," she confessed, soberly.

"I have not even seen him for such a long time; but--but, I guess, he is more to me than any one else--" "Not seen him?
Do you mean to say Mr.Hampton is not here in Glencaid?
Why, I am so sorry; I was hoping to meet him." "He went away the same night I came here to live." "And you never even hear from him ?" Naida hesitated, but the frankly displayed interest of the other won her complete girlish confidence.

"Not directly, but Mr.Herndon receives money from him for me.

He does n't let your aunt know anything about it, because she got angry and refused to accept any pay from him.

He is somewhere over yonder in the Black Range." Miss Spencer shook back her hair with a merry laugh, and clasped her hands.