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When the triangle clanged its supper call, however, she came slowly down from her favorite nook at the head of the pond, her hands filled with flowers hastily gathered in the dusk

"Here she coe Peppajee around," Donny iroup on the porch disappeared with some haste into the kitchen

Evadna was leisurely in her ht The tea had been poured and handed around the table by the Portuguese girl, Marie, and the sugar-boas going after, when she settled herself and her ruffles daintily between Grant and a braided, green-blanketed, dignifiedly loquacious Indian

The boys signaled each another to attention by kicking surreptitiously under the table, but nothing happened Evadna bowed a dear-bowl from Grant and the butter fro her supper She seemed perfectly at ease; too perfectly at ease, decided Grant, who had an instinct for observation and was covertly watching her It was unnatural that she should rub elboith Peppajee without betraying the faintest trace of surprise that he should be sitting at the table with the up the conversation where Evadna had evidently interrupted it, "o, ht, all ti No drinkum whisky all saenerously a hot biscuit, and reached for the honey "No brave no et drunk all saht Lay all tient, hiivum blanket, you thinkum bueno He tellum you, kay bueno Makum Injun lazy Makum all same wachee-typo" (tramp) "All time eat, all time sleep, playurunt stood for disgust of his tribe, always so of an affectation with Peppajee

"My brother, my brother's wife, , for an English word, gave it up, and substituted a phrase "All the folks b'longuent one tiivum plenty flour, plenty meat, plenty tea Huh Them damn' folks no eatum All time playum cards, drinkum whisky All time otha fella ketchu b'longum" In the rhetorical pause he made there, his black eyes wandered inadvertently to Evadna's face And Evadna, the timid one, actually smiled back