"It was so spectral and ghastly that I gave way to sudden fear." "You need no excuse," I hastened to assure her.

"When the thing frightened De Croix and me, and even set so old a soldier as Captain Wells to raving, it was no wonder it unnerved a girl, however brave she might prove in the presence of real danger.

But you can sleep now, convinced it was naught but a floating cloud." She smiled at me over her shoulder, and I watched the pair with jealous eyes until they disappeared.

I noticed Captain Wells standing beside me.
"You thought I raved up yonder," he said gravely; "to-morrow will prove that my interpretation of the vision was correct." "You believe it a prophecy of evil ?" "It was the warning of the Great Spirit--the Death-Shadow of the Miamis.

Never has it appeared to men of our tribe except on the eve of great disaster, the forerunner of grave tragedy.