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Good Indian was young, which iven to looking very far into the future except as he was personally concerned in what he ie Howard and the stir of preparation for the fishing trip, he forgot that he had taken upon hi the obviously harer, or had taken seriously the warnings of Peppajee Jiet, he at least pushed it far into the background of his mind with the assertion that Peppajee was athan he appeared--which was not at all

What did interest hih he kept his interest so well hidden that no one suspected it--not even the young lady herself It is possible that if Evadna had known that Good Indian's attitude of calht have continued longer her rigorous discipline of averted face and frigid tones

As it was, she thawed toward him as he held himselfhiood h he responded with stiff civility, he felt his blood pulse faster, and suddenly conceived the idea that women are like the creatures of the wild If one is very quiet, andcoht his breath After that he ary and watchful and full of his purpose

Within ten minutes Evadna walked into the trap They had started, and were fifty yards up the trail, when Phoebe shouted frantically after them And because she was yet a timid rider and feared to keep the pace set by the others, it was Evadna who heard and turned back to see as the trouble Aunt Phoebe was standing beside the road, waving a flask

"It's the crea to meet Evadna "You can slip it into your jacket-pocket, can't you, honey? Huckleberry is so steady--and you won't do any wild riding like the boys"

"I've got my veil and a box of bait and two handkerchiefs and a piece of soap," the girl co down for the bottle, nevertheless "But I can carry it in ive it to"

The somebody proved to be Good Indian, who had found it necessary to stop and inspect carefully the left forefoot of his horse, without appearing aware of the girl's approach She aait, struck him with her whip--a blohich would not have perturbed a mosquito--when he showed a disposition to stop beside Grant, and then, when Huckleberry reluctantly resuure stooped over the hoof he held upon his knee He was digging into the caked dirt inside the hoof with his pocketknife, and, though Evadna waited while she htest attention--and that in spite of the distinct shadow of her head and shoulders which lay at his feet