CHAPTER XXVII.
DORENWALD, CHIEF Mary Gage, sitting alone in her cabin, could hear the hum of voices as Wid Gardner and Annie Squires talked together in the open sunlight.
Presently she heard the footfall of Annie as she came to the door.
"Well, Sis," said that cheerful individual, "how are you getting on ?" "Couldn't you come in for a while, Annie?
I'm very lonesome.

What were you talking about ?" "I just told that man out there I'm going to take you back home." Mary Gage sat silent for a time.

"We'll have to get a better solution than that." "It's a fine little solution you've got so far, ain't it now ?" commented Annie.

"Highbrows always have to lean on the lowbrows, more or less.

You listen to me." "Sometime, I suppose," she went on after a moment's pause, "I'll have to talk right out with you.