The Press., 1894-10-04

| widening slowly to the peculiarity of l the position she occupied. The place awed her and had broken her rest by l perplexing her mind, and she sat down 1 to the. breakfast table with a strange, hunted look ill her face. But opposite | to her was a window opening to the ground, and beyond it were the lines and beeches and a wide, perfect sward and far away little lake, on which swans and wild fowl futtered
 Presently, as she sat silent, eating little, her eyes lifted to the window. They flashed instantly, her face lighted up with a weird kind of charm, and 1 suddenly she got to her feet with Indian exclamations on her lips, and, as if un- conscious of them all, went swiftly to the window and out of it, waving her hands up and down once or twice to the trees and the sunlight.
 What did she say?" said Mrs. Ar mour, rising with the others.
 ''She said," replied Mackenzie as she hurried toward the window, "that they were her beautiful woods, and there were wild birds flying and swim ming ill the water, as ill her own coun try.'
 By this time all were at the window, Richard arriving last, and the Indian | girl turned on them, her body all quiv- ering with excitement, laughed a low, birdlike laugh, and then, clapping her hands above her head, she swung round and ran like deer toward the lake, shaking her head back as an animal does when fleeing from his pursuers. She would scarcely have been recogniz- ed as the same placid, speeches. wo,n- an i'll a blanket who sat with folded hands day after day on the Aphrodite. | The watchers turned and looked at each other ill wonder. Truly their task of civilizing savage would not lack ill interest. The old general was better pleased, however, at this display of ac- tivlty and excitement than at yester l days taciturnity. He loved spirit, even if it had to be subdued, and he thought on the instant that he might possibly come to look upon the fair savage as an actual and not a nominal daughter-in- law. He had keen appreciation 0. courage, and he thought he saw ill her face, as she turned upon them, look of defiance or daring, and nothing could have got at his nature quicker. If the case had not been so near to his own hearthstone, he would have chuckled. As it was, he said good humoredly that Mackenzie and Marion should go and bring her back. But Mackenzie was al ready at that duty. Mrs. Armour had had the presence of mind to send for Col win, but presently, when the general spoke, she thought it better that Marion should go and counseled returning to breakfast and not making the matter of too much importance. This they did, Richard very reluctantly, while Ma rion, rather pleased than not at the spirit shown by the strange girl, ran away over the grass toward the lake, where Lali had now stopped.
 There was little bridge at one point where the lake narrowed, and Lali, evi- dently seeing it all at once, went to- ward it and ran up on it, standing poised above the water about the mid dle of it. For an instant all unpleasant possibility came into Marion's mind suppose the excited girl intended sui eide! She shivered as she thought of it, and yet She put that horribly s'uel and selfish thought away fom her with an indignant word at herself. She had | passed Mackenzie and come first to the | lake. Here she slackened and waved her hand playfully to the girl, so as not to frighten her, and then with forced laugh came up panting on the bridge and was presently by Lali's side. Lali eyed her little furtively, but seeing %<> I1D pleasant she nodded to her, said some Indian words hastily and spread out her hands toward the water. As she did so Marion noticed again the beauty of those hands and the graceful character of the gesture, so much so that she for got the fiat hair, and the unstayed body, and the rather broad feet, and the deli cate duskiness, which had so worked on her ill imagination and in fact the even ing before. She put her hand kindly on that long slim hand stretched out beside her, and because she knew not what else to speak and because the tongue is very perverse at times saying the oppo- site of what is expected, she herself blundered out, 'How, how, Lalip'
 Perhaps Lali was as much surprised at the remark as Marion herself and certainly very much more delighted. The sound of those familiar words, spoken by accident, as they were, opened the way to better understanding as nothing else could possibly have done. Marion was annoyed at herself and yet amused too. If her mind had been per fectly assured regarding Captain Vii dall it is probable that then and there a peculiar, a genial comradeship would I have been formed. As it was, Marion found this little event more endurable than she expected. She also found that Lali, when she laughed i'll pleasant &C., knowledgment of that How had re- markedly white and regular teeth. In deed Marion Armour began to discover some estimable points ill the appearance of her savage sister-in- law. Marion re- marked to herself that Lali might be a rather striking person if she were dress ed. as her mother said, in Christian gar ments and could speak the English Ian guage well-and was somebody else's sister-in-law.
 At this point Mackenzie came breath | lessly to the bridge and called out a CO AoAlS llS1 III GlllS | Mackenzie made mistake, for not only did Lali draw herself up wi4l consider able dignity, but Marion, noticing the masterful nature of the tone, instantly said: Mackenzie, you must remember that you are speaking to Mrs. Francis Armour, and that her position ill Gen eral Armour's house is the same as mine. hope it is not necessary to say anything more, Mackenzie. "
 Mackenzie flushed. She was aysensi- ble woman. She knew that she had done wrong, and she said very promptly: "I | am very sorry, miss. was mustered, CURES SS7sI3H8 Mrs. ). H. LANSING, of South Gten's Falls. Sar. Gtoga County, ". r., writes: Ait; After my a thiTa | child was born, I barely gainen strength l enough in two Year's time. so as to be able