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There is a saying--and if it is not purely Western, it is at least purely Aood Indian is a dead Indian In the very teeth of that, and in spite of the fact that he was neither very good, nor an Indian--nor in any sense "dead"--men called Grant Imsen "Good Indian" to his face; and if he resented the title, his resentrown up with the name, he rather liked it when he was a little fellow, and with custom had come to take it as a matter of course

Because his paternal ancestry went back, and back to no one knohere a the race of blue eyes and fair skin, the Indians repudiated relationship with hih they also spoke of hily as "Good Injun"

Because old Wolfbelly hily admit under pressure that the hter of Wolfbelly's sister, white ry, and called him Injun And because he stood thus between the two races of ument, not even the fact that he was looked upon by the Harts as one of the family, with his own bed always ready for hi room set apart for the boys, and with a certain place at the table which was called his--not even his assured position there could keep hi quite alone, and perhaps a trifle bitter over his loneliness

Phoebe Hart had mothered him from the ti Grant there with twelve years behind hiold coin so heavy he could scarce lift it, which stood for theclaim the old man had just sold, and the co

Old John Ireat outdoors had ever slipped past him and remained mysterious Put when he sold his last claim--others he had which proned his name with an X Another had written the word John before that X, and the word Imsen after; above, a hich he explained was "his," and below the word "mark" John Imsen had stared down suspiciously at the words, and he had not felt quite easy in hisAlso, he had been asha toit look like two crooked sticks thron carelessly, one upon the other His face had gone darkly red with the sha down at the paper