The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-11-03

WAS LIS supcTlOr, duu luuTm Oh pur-
pose, he put off the evil day.
But the young man gave little heed
to the words that Joe had spoken.
From the moment he had seen the
Indian girl all other thoughts were
banished from his mind. With her
light canoe dancing over the waters,
and dressed with far more than ordin-
airy brilliancy-with scarlet flowers
woven in the heavy braids of her in
tensely black hair-with her eyes
brilliant at the sight of him she loved
and from whom she hoped so much
with smile upon her full, ripe lips
it would have been strange if it had
been otherwise.
The little island reached, they moor
ed their canoe, and wandered away
from the shore, and completely out
of sight as well as hearing, seated
themselves upon the short and velvet
like grass, mosaiced by myriad of tiny
flowers.
GLOW beautiful you look today"
said Legarde, as he took her hand
within his own.
"1s the daughter of the red man as
fair in the eyes of the pale face as
those of his own people2" asked the
girl, raising her eyes SO as to look him
fully in the face.
"There are few as handsome as you
are. l know thousands who would
give all they have for your figure, and
eyes and hair"
"But they are like snow, and the
daughters of the Chippewas as brown
as the hillside when the frost has
breathed upon it,"
"Pshawl You are the fairest of all
your tribe. You know that ] have
often told you of Pocahontas. doubt
if she was as white as you"
"And yet she was looked up to by
the pale faces"
eyes; went to England, married
there, and lived in such splendor as
you never even dreamed Of"
Never before had Legarde fully de-
termined upon his plan of action.
Now he had made up his mind to win
her at all hazards, and, throwing his
arm around her waist, he drew her to
his side, whispered burning words of
love, and for the first time kissed her.
And thus they sat-she loving and
dazzled by the splendor he promised
should be hers when he returned to
civilization, and he forgetful of all but
the passion of the hour.
With the reclining sun they re-
turned to the shore, promised man
and wife, though, as yet, no time had
been fixed upon. That was sweet
decision left for the future.
Joe saw them as they landed-saw
their parting. 1t was such as lovers
have INDUCED in since Eden, and will
enjoy until the end of time. He saw
the tender embrace, could hear the
kiss, and resolved to be reticent no
longer.
IL want you to tell me one thing"
he said to Legarde, as the two sat by
their bright campfire, smoking, after
late supper.
"Well, Joe, what is it?"
"Do you intend to marry that In
dian grip"
"Why? Will it make any differ
ence to your"
Certainly not, but it will to you,
If l don't miss my reckoning, and am
not apt to do so when there's anything
red-skin about the matter. I've lived
too long among them not to know
them, root and branch"
well, l intend to marry her."
"You had better not. She's Just as
dangerous and treacherous as q poison
serpent"
"What makes you think sop"
"What would make me think there
was another around if saw slide, or
a beaver if l saw dam? l always
know what kind of an animal is about
the minute l see its trail"
"You are much mistaken about her,
Joe. She loves me to distraction"
every well now, but l reckon it
won't always be 80. You don't expect
to remain in these woods until you
de-"
"No, thank heaven; another twelve
months will see me clear of them for
ever"
"And what are you going to do
with the girl when you leave?"
"What makes you ask such q ques-
tion?"
"You can't well take her home with
you, you know, and"
81 don't intend to. Hundreds have
married-the ceremony is only mere
farce-married squaws before, and left
them whenever they pleased"
"And you intend to do so?"
certainly. Do you think would
be fool enough to take a copper
skinned wife home, and be made the
laughing stock of all my friends?"
"Then you had better look out for
yourself. That Is all / have got to
say, and-what in the name of thun-
der was that2"
Joe's quick ear had heard a slight
rustlinU in the hnahoa and an mo