The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-07-26

leSsly TO the bridge and called out a
sharply to Lali, rebuking her. In this
Mackenzie made a mistake, for not only
did Lali draw herself up with consider
able dignity, but Marion, noticing tho
masterful nature Of the tone, instantly
said: Mackenzie, you must remember
that you are speaking to Mrs. Francis
Armour, and that her position in Gen
eral Armour's house is the same as
mine. hope it is not necessary to say
anything more, Mackenzie -
Mackenzie flushed. She was o sensi-
BILE woman. She knew that she had done
wrong, and she said very promptly: 81
am very sorry, miss. 1 was husuo. ed,
and l expect l haven't got used to speak
ing TOTO Mrs Armour as I'll he sure
to do i'll the future
AS she spoke two or three deer came
trotting out of the beeches down to the
lakeside. IF Lali was pleased and ex-
cited before, she was overwhelmed now
Her breath came in quick gasps She
laughed, she tossed her hands, she seem
ed to become dizzy with delight, and
presently, as if this new link with and
reminder of her past had moved her as
one little expects savage heart is NOV
ed, two tears gathered in her eyes, then
slid down her cheeks unheeded and dried
there in the sunlight as she still gazed
ut the deer. Marion, at first surprised,
was now touched, as she could not have
thought it possible concerning this wild
creature, and her hand went out and
caught Lali's gently. At this genuine
act Of sympathy, instinctively felt by
Lali-the stranger in q strange land,
husbanded and yet widow-there
came flood Of tears, and dropping Oh
her knees she leaned against the low
railing of the bridge and wept silently.
So passionless was her grief it seemed
the more pathetic, and Marion dropped
ON her knees beside her, put her arm
round her shoulder and said: "Poor
girl! Poor girlP'
At that Lali caught her hand and
held it, repeating after her the words:
Poor grill Poor grip
She did not quite understand them,
but she remembered that once just be-
fore she parted from her husband at the
great lakes he had said those very
words If the fates had apparently given
things into Frank Armour's hands when
he sacrificed this girl to his revenge,
they were evidently inclined to play a
game which would eventually defeat
his purpose, wicked as it had been In
effect if not in absolute motive What
the end of this attempt to engraft the
Indian girl upon the strictest conven-
ton of English social life would have
been had her introduction not been at
Greyhopa. where faint likenesses to her
past surrounded her, it is hard to con-
lecture. But from present appearances
it would seem that Richard Armour
was not wholly false prophet, for the
savage had shown herself that morning
to possess in their crudeness some strik
ing qualities of character. Given char
acter, many things are possible, even to
those who are not of the elect.
This wnS the beginning Of better
things. Lasi seemed to the Armours not
quite so impossible now. Had she been
Of the very common order of Indian,
"pure and simple" the task had re-
solved itself into making common
savage into very common European.
But whatever Lali was it was abun-
dainty evident that she must be reckoned
with at all points, and that she was
more likely to become very startling
figure in the Armour household than
mere encumbrance to be blushed for,
whose eternal absence were preferable
to her company.
Years after that first morning Marion
caught herself shuddering at the
thought that came to her when she saw
Lali lowering on the bridge. Whatever
Marion 8 faults were, she had fine dis
like of anything that seemed unfair.
She had not ridden to hounds for moth
ing. She had at heart the sportman's
instinct. 1t was upon this basis indeed
that Richard appealed to her in the first
trying days of Lali's life among them.
To oppose your will to Marion on the
basis of superior knowledge was only to
turn her into rebel, and a very effect
i've rebel she made, for SIG had pretty
gift at the retort courteous, and she
could take as much and as well as she
gave. She rebelled at first at assisting
in Lali's education, though by fits and
starts she would teach her English
words and help her to form long SEN
fences and was on the whole quite pa
tent But Lali's real instructors were
Mrs. Armour and Richard; her best,
Richard.
The first few days she made but little
progress, for everything was strange to
her, and things made her giddy-the
servants, the formal routine, the hand
some furnishings, Marion's music, the
great house, the many precise personal
duties set for her to be got through at
stated times and Mrs. Armour's rather
grand manner. But there was the relief
to this, else the girl had pined terribly
for her native woods and prairies. This
was the park, the deer, the lake, the
hares and birds. While she sat saying
over after Mrs. Armour words and
phrases in English or was being shown
how she must put on and wear the
sashes which dressmaker from Regent
street had been brought to make, her
eyes would wander dreamily to the
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