"It is indeed long since I have heard the name.
Where knew you her ?" "I have never known her; but her father was my father's friend, and I sought her because of that friendship." "Here ?" "At Fort Dearborn, where she was left an orphan." "How strange! how very strange indeed! 'T is a small world.

Elsa Matherson!--and at Dearborn ?" Was it acting, for some purpose unknown to me,--or what might be the secret of these strange expressions?
"Then you are not the one I seek ?" She hesitated, looking keenly toward me through the dim light.
"I have not said who I may be," she answered evasively.

"Whatever name I may once have borne was long ago forgotten, and to the simple children about me I am only Sister Celeste.

'T is enough to live by in this wilderness, and the recording angel of God knows whether even that is worthy.

But I have been waiting to learn why you are here, creeping through the bushes like a savage! Nor do I believe you to be altogether alone.