Julie, you knew what had been done there, didn't you ?" The mountain girl nodded.
"How did you know ?" "Er feller an' girl comin' t' the dance seen it," she answered with some hesitation.
"And you know who did it ?" "Uh-huh," nodded the girl.
"Who was it ?" "Ah shan't tell you-all!" exclaimed Julie, a challenge snapping in her black eyes.
"That is all right, my dear, if you do not wish to speak.

How is your friend, Lum Bangs, to-day ?" "He ain't no friend of mine.

Ah don't know nothin' 'bout how he is, an' Ah don't care." Julie blazed as she said it.
The Overland girls smiled.

Grace's question, they thought, had been answered.
"Thar comes somebody," cried Julie, distracting the attention of all from the subject.
A man on horseback was seen pounding up the trail at a fast pace.
"It's the doc!" announced the mountain girl.
"Hippy! Where's Hippy ?" gasped Nora.
"Keep steady," urged Grace, as they got up and walked out to meet the doctor in front of the cabin.
"Are you the doctor ?" asked Elfreda as he rode up and swung a hand to them.
"Yes." "Where did you leave Lieutenant Wingate ?" asked Grace.
"About ten miles down the trail.

I got here as quickly as possible.