Charlevoix county herald., 1908-02-08
CHAPTER Xxi.-Continued.
And so her new life began.

But the change was not made with
out some cost to her feelings, for
heartstrings reach far, and Miss Phin.
ney and her months of patient teach
ing were not forgotten.
Aunt Comfort and her benign face
oft returned to Chip, land dear Old
Cy." as she always thought Of him,
still oftener. Rays face also linger-
ed in her heart Now and then she
caught herself humming some darby
song, and never once did the moon
smile into this quiet vale that her
thoughts did not speed back to that
wildwood lake, with its rippled path
Of silver, the dark bordering forest,
and how she welded q paddle while
-her young lover picked his banjo.
No word or hint of all this bygone
!ife and romance ever fell from her
lips. 1t was page in her memory
that must never be turned-an idyl
20 be forgotten-and yet forget it
she could not, in spite of will or
wishes.
And now as the summer days sped
by. and Chip helping Uncle Jud in the
meadows or Aunt Mandy about the
house, and Winning love from both,
saw a new realm open before her.
There was in the sitting room Of this
quaint home tall bookcase. its
shelves filed with a motley collection
Of books; works on science. astron-
omy geology botany. and the like;
books of travel and adventure; stories
Of strange countries and people never
Geacd Of by Chip; and novels by Scott,
Lever. Cooper. and Hardy. These last,
especially Scott and Cooper, appealed
most 20 Chip. and once she began
them. every spare dour, and often un.
ii long past midnight, she became
lost in this new world.
Il know all about how folks live in
the woods" she said one Sunday to
Uncle Jud, when half through THE
Deerslayer.' Il was brought up
there. | know how Injuns live, and
what they believe. had an old
injuu friend once. I've got the moe.
casins and fur cape he gave me now
Ills name was Tomah, n he believed
in queer things that something's creCG
an sometimes run EASTERN we can
II was her first reference to her
old life, but once begun, she never
paused until ali her queer history El1
been related
81 didn't mean to tell it," she ex
plained in conclusion, FOR done
want nobody to know where | came
from, an | hope you won't tell"
How near she came to disclosing
what was OF far more Importance tC
herself and these people than old To
mails superstition she never knew. OF
that all that saved her was her refer
ence to Old Cy by that name only.
More than that, she had no sus
piclon that this kindly old man, Sc
much like aim in looks and speech
was his brother
With the coming of September, how
ever, a visitor was announced "Aun
Abhy's comm to stay with us a spell.
Uncle Jud said that day; "shei
Mandy's sister, Abigail Bemis, an sh,
lives at Christmas Cove. It's shor,
town, bout hundred miles from here
She amt much like Mandy" he addet
,contidentially to Chip; shes NOR,
book larned, so you'll have to min;
your p's and as. If we like, We cal
go with me to the station 20 NEE
her
And so 1t came to pass that fey
days later Chip. dressed in her best
rode to the station with Uncle Ju
In the old carryall, and there met thi
visitor.
She was not a welcome guest, s
Tar as Chip was concerned, wonted a