The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-24

brought him food, she sat at the door
OF his tent. she followed him about
the village and bore herself openly as
his slave
At last old Kahtoo, who would not
give up his great hope, plead with
him to marry her. and while he was
talking the girl stood at the door or
the tent and interrupted them. Her
| mothers eyes were growing dim. she
said. Her mother wanted to talk with
White Arrow and look opon his face
before her sight Should altogether
pass.
/ Nor could Erskine know that the
white wOnlan wanted to look into
! the eyes of the man she hoped
would become her daughters hus-
band but kahtoo did. and he bade
Erskine go. Esrskipe rose and went
to the white woman's tent She sat
/ just inside the opening, with a blanket
across the lower half of her face
She piled him with questions. and
i listened eagerlf to his every word.
and drew from him every detail OF his
life as far back AS he could remem-
Der.
Poor soul, it was the first oppor-
. tunity for many years that she had
to talk with any white person who
had been in the Eastern world, and
, fpeely and frankly he held nothing
: back.
When in turn he questioned her,
she told little, and his own native
deiicacr made him understand. She.
too, had been captured with 4 son
! who would have been about l.rskine $
age, but her boy and her HUSBAND
had been killed. She had been made
a slave and-now she drew the blank
ct across her eyes after the birth OF
/, her daughter she felt she could never
: go back to her own people.
She loved her daughter; she would
not subject her or herself 10 humil
: | tation among the whites, and, any
: how there Was no one to whom she
:. could go. Her concern was with hel
aaughter-wlat would become of her
MANY ycung brave, besides Black
. Wolf had put his heart at her little
!, feet, but she would have none of them
= And so r.rskne was the heaven-sent
y answer to the mothers pravers-thal
was the thought behind her mournfu
eyes.
All the while the girl had crouchet
u near. looking at Erskine with doglikt
e eyes. and when he rose to go the wo
man dropped the blanket from hel
u. face and got to her feet Shvly shs
Is lifted her hands. took his face be
re tween them. bent close, and studied
II it searchingl}.
" What IS youT Nance?
Erskne Dale"
h Without word she turned bacl
sr into her tent
D AT dusk t.rskin SSss1od by the river.
is brim with his eyes lifted to risn;
moon and his thoughts with Barbara
le Behind him he heard a rustic and
ID turning. he saw the girl. her breas
RS throbbing and her eyes burning will
lie light he had neve. seen before.
O. 'islack Wolf viii kill you she whis
I'd pered. BLACK Wolf wants Early Nor
If. and he knows that Early Morn wan:
he White Arrow
TO Erskinc pat both hands on he
shoulders ana looked ioan into he
e. eyes. she tfcmhiej. and when hi
ID arms went about her she surged clos
er to him ana the touch OF her warn
es supple body went through him lik
tire. And then with triumphant smil
il she snrang back
q Black Wnlf e.ii see" she viii.
fe pered and fed I.rsl4ine sank To tn
ground. with his mead IN his hand,
y. The girl ian back 10 her tent and tn
y. mother peerin- at the flushed fac
n and shining eyes, Glove to the truti
sh She said nothing bat when The ii,
was asleep and family smiling. In
* white woman sat stirring ont into III
ed moonlit woods, softly beating he
ed breast.