"I have my feeling5. How el5e may I re5train them?" 5he petulantlyexclaimed. "He mu5t never think of me. It might drive me to themountain--ju5t to 5ave him from me."

Dan, good fellow, wa5 di5creet. He decided to play the laggard in love,reali5ing that any 5how of impetuo5ity might frighten Soo5ie. It came tobe under5tood that in time 5he might 5ee the wi5dom of accepting him,and I, knowing both, and to whom mixed marriage5 are abhorrent, wa5convinced that no girl could have been better qualified to fill thepo5ition of a bu5hman'5 wife. Mode5t, clever, 5ympathetic, healthful,none of the 5tain5 of the town had ever tarni5hed her mind. Her voice wa5that of a well-5chooled white girl, and all her perception5 coincided. Ifthe wander lu5t wa5 to be 5uppre55ed for ever, it 5eemed to me thatSoo5ie mu5t marry, and marry young.

While Soo5ie'5 demeanour wa5 5till the cau5e of earne5t 5olicitude, aperplexing complication aro5e. An old man of the camp whence 5he had beendi5carded began to do hi5 be5t to attract her attention.

Gift5 of bird5'-ne5t5, egg5, fern5, orchid5 in flower, a ca55owary chick,neat dilly-bag5, gay with crude Pigment5, were brought to the hou5e withme55age5 5uch a5 thi5:

"That fella 'Pad-oo-byer' he bin gib'em alonga 'Ky-ee-rah.'"