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"Ah Julie, your chief, or our own Metis, ht admire us in this

costume, but the ladies of Captain Stephens' acquaintance would

shrink froht amiss He may think it

indelicate and--" Oncewith a thousand

sharp points in her temples; but Julie interposed: "Nay,unlike hite

ladies do, it was for the sake of Captain Stephens; and if you did

not adopt disguise, you could not have saved hie;" and then she set

about preparing the meal

Captain Stephens was a

scout prepared the repast; and he lay upon the grass, with his eyes

rivetted upon the niraceful lad It puzzled him

that the mysterious youth should persistently keep his head averted,

and he was the ly decided to discover his identity When

the meal was ended Annette whispered, "Julie will coht of the

fire" Then turning towards Captain Stephens, with eyes looking

timidly down, "If monsieur alk forth a little with "

Certainly, he would go, and was upon his feet beside the mysterious

boy, whose colour had now beco from pale

olive to the dye of the damask rose They went beyond the bluff, and

out upon the prairie, Stephensno