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"Oh, yes, Inkoosi," she answered, "that is my poor name But how did you

hear it, and how do you know me?"

"I heard it from one Saduko"--here she frowned a little--"and others,

and I knew you because you are so beautiful"--an incautious speech at

which she broke into a dazzling smile and tossed her deer-like head

"Airl to

whos, for which I

thank hi

one knee "But," she went on quickly, "whatever else I be, I ae, not fit to tend you who are hurt Shall I go and send my

oldest mother?"

"Do you mean her whom your father calls the 'Worn-out-old-Cow,' and

whose ear he shot off?"

"Yes, it must be she frohter, "though I never heard hiotten it," I said dryly "Well, I think

not, thank you Why trouble her, when you will do quite as well? If

there is ive me a drink of it"

She flew to the bowl like a s, and nextit to my lips with one hand, while with the other she