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 .Ir6ith's convent upbringing had con ferred on Der the doubtful advantage of q @oNtleWOman' tastes and hearing, making of her. therefore. an alien in her fathers house. When Mrs At kins, who was responsible for her edu- cation, realized the equiYocal good of these things and saw, moreover that the gir! had grown to be q beauty, she offered to adopt her, but Judith. with the pitiful heroism of youth that un- derstands little of what it is renounc. ing. thought herself strong enough to hold together q family uncertain of purpos" as quicksilver
 In t,.ose tragic days of adjustment came Peter Hamilton as strange to the bald conditions of frontier life as the girl herself From the beginning there had been between them the barrier of circumstance Hamilton was poor, .ludlth tie m"instay of d household whose thriftlessness had become a proverb He came of family that numbered q signer of the Declaration of Independence. a famous chief jus tice and the dean of great university. Judith was uncertain of her right to the very name she bore. And yet they We're young. he q maH, she Woman-- eternal fountain of interest. X preco- cious sense of the fitness of things was the compass that enabled Peter to steer through the deep waters in the years that followed. But the girl paid the penalty of her great heart. In that troublous sea of friendship she was soon adrift without rudder sail or compass.
 Judith was now eight and twenty, and sculptor would have found a hundred statues in her. Long of limb, deep bosomed, youth and health radi- ated from her as sparks fly upward. In sunlight her black hair had the blu ish irideScence of ripe plum. The eyes were deep and questioning-the eyes of young seraph whose wings had not yet brushed the far distant heights of paradise. And yet in this wilderness that was famishing for wo- mans love and tears and laughter by a perversity of fate she walked alone. She was true daughter of the des- ert, the child of stark unlovely cir cumstance. No well bred romance of book and bells and churchly benedic- ton had ushered her into being. Her maternal grandfather had been the fa- nous Sioux chief, Flying Hawk; her grandmother white woman who knew no word of her peoples tongue nor yet her name or race. The Indians found the white baby sleeping by her dead mother after the massacre of an emigrant train. They took her with them. and she grew up in the Black Hills country, a white skinned Sioux marrying a chief of the people that had slain her people. She accepted het squaw's portion uncomplainngly = slaved cheorfully at sQuaws work while her brave made war on til, whites. hunted and smoked She rear. ed her half breed children in the leg ends of their fathers people and die d witherel crone. cursing the p; faces who had robbed the Sioux of tn, buffalo and their hunting ground.
 Gro Be Continued.