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soon as Onistah came into the circle of ligh

rom Crees. Thanks,"

offered

was embarrassed. "Oh, we

ough. "Onistah never f

"How's the leg? Seem

him a question in the native tongue. He answ

istah is my brother. I too t

e's not Angus Mc

she said with a touch of the defensive defiance that always cam

ter, over t

West could have killed with a wish. Sleeping Dawn would have been on the road to an existence worse than death. Instead, they sa

Blackfoot, and Barney, another had come out of the night and hailed them with a "Hello, the camp!" This last self-invited guest was Brad Stearns

as nothing else for her to do. She could not very well ride the night out wit

to make camp with five men as companions, all but one of them almost st

ragic, that still held potentialities of disaster. For she could not forget the look on West's face when he had sworn to get

she had done. The constable's life was at stake. I

rd as an apology for having ridden forty miles with Onistah to save his life. It was,

er was, but I have heard he was an American. Stokimatis took me to her tepee and I lived there with her and Onistah till I was five o

ot flinch while she told the damning facts about her parentage and life. She was of the métis, the child of an unknown father. So far as she knew her moth

blunder, so he said nothing. But the girl would have been amazed if she could have r

s daughter, it was because he l

for me? I learned to read and write at his knee. He taught me the old songs of Scotland that he's so

McRae," the yo

cotch, but of course I can't be that even though I s

Father Giguère, tall and austere and filled with the wisdom of years, a scholar who had left his dear France to serve on the outposts of civilization. And there was the old priest'

requented the North woods. In her bed at night she had more than once wept herself to sleep

ford admitted with a smile. "When he wants to ma

e, but because she knew Angus McRae could bring me up better than she could. I was with her to-day when Onistah came in and told us what this West was going to do. There wasn't time for me to reach

said quietly, his eyes for an instant full on hers. "I don't think I've ever

grateful to her for what she had done. No experience in the ways of men and maids warned her that there was anoth

s bed. He left Beresford to explain to her that she could sleep there alone wi

k her reassurance. "I'm not afraid-not the least litt

here was something in him hard and unyielding as flint. He would go to his chosen end, whatever that might be, over and through any obstacles that might rise. But to-night, on her behalf, he had thrown down the

and charming. In his jaunty forage cap and scarlet jacket he was one to catch and hold the eye by reason of his engaging personality. He too had fought her batt

ot been the remotest hint in his manner that there was an