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"The Feathered People are singing their war chant," he said, and his

gesture seemed to ask them to listen They started apart, and it was

not Elsie alone who blushed Courtenay crihty interest in the doings of the savages

The girl recovered her self-controlof the h

"They will be singing a dirge next," said he with a jaunty confidence

"Now, Elsie, off with you! Be sure I shall come and tell you when you

ht of the Alaculof challenge Though

the raucous notes of the tuneless lay could be heard plainly enough,

they did not reach her ears When she raced down the saloon co over the shtened himself in his peculiarly stiff way

"What did the captain want?" he asked, with a suspicious peevishness

which, for once, detracted from his habitual courtesy The note of

distrust jarred Elsie back into her senses

"He wished me to translate Señor Suarez's explanation of another snal," she answered

"Oh, was that all?"

"Practically all"

"He told you himself, I suppose, that he wished you to stay here"

"He did ainst your will?"

"No Am I not one of the ship's company? Is he not the centurion? He