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"I'll never make a really good hunter, Eena," he regretted one day, "I can't bear to gallop on a big cayuse after a little scared jack rabbit, and run him down and kill him when he's so little and doesn't try to fight me with his claws or fangs like a lynx will do. It's not a fair deal." "But when one camps many leagues from the ranch house, one must eat," observed the Indian.
After a moment Eena ceased her sobbing and knelt beside the Chemist, looking up at him sorrowfully. "I cannot believe," said the Chemist finally, raising his head, "that the safest way to rescue Loto is by the plan you have suggested." He spoke with his usual calm, judicial manner, having regained control of himself completely.
"My sister also?" he smiled gently at Aura. "My way lies with you, too," the girl answered simply. "For no man here has held my heart." The Very Young Man stepped forward. "Do we take them with us?" He indicated Oteo and Eena, who stood silently watching. "Ask them, Lylda," said the Chemist. Calling them to her, Lylda spoke to the youth and the girl in her native tongue.
"Some Christmas," commented the Very Young Man looking around. "Where's the holly and stuff?" "Oh, we've got it all right, don't you worry," said the Banker. "And mistletoe," said Lylda, twinkling. "For you, Jack." Eena again stood in the doorway and said something to her mistress. "The tree is ready," said Lylda. The Chemist rose to his feet. "Come on, everybody; let's go trim it."
Ever see patent leather shoes, Eena?" asked Banty, with some disgust. "I don't know, me. I think not," replied The Eena. "You're lucky," went on Banty. "But my cousin's sure to wear them, and they're spoil-sport things, I can tell you! No salmon fishing, no mountaineering, no hunting while they're around. But, Eena, why do you call my cousin a King Georgeman?"
"Targo and four of his men were here soon after we left. Eena saw them and hid. They searched the house " "For the drugs," muttered the Doctor under his breath. " and then left, taking Loto with them." "Which way did they go?" asked the Big Business Man. "Good God, what a thing!" "They went by water, in a large boat that was waiting for them here," answered the Chemist.
There they laid her down, her head supported by Eena, who knelt in the water beside her mistress. The multitude on the sand crowded up to the water's edge; hundreds, forced forward by the pressure of those behind, plunged in, swam about, or sank and were rolled back by the surf, lifeless upon the shore.
At the ranch house door they were greeted by Banty's parents and a couple of range riders, and Eena, who, Indian-like, never revealed the fact by word or look that he had observed the patent leather shoes, and the wonderful high collar; who, also Indian-like, in spite of these drawbacks, liked the stranger without cause, a peculiar instinct of liking that came when the young King Georgeman shook hands with him, a wholesome British "shake" that engendered confidence.
"But it's all wrong, you know," declared Dorothy, earnestly; "and, if you don't mind, I shall call you 'Billina. Putting the 'eena' on the end makes it a girl's name, you see." "Oh, I don't mind it in the least," returned the yellow hen. "It doesn't matter at all what you call me, so long as I know the name means ME." "Very well, Billina.
"What a Christmas he will have," said the Banker, a little huskily. A girl stood in the doorway that led into the dining-room adjoining a curious-looking girl in a gingham apron and cap. Lylda looked up. "Oh, Eena, please will you say to Oteo we want the tree from the wood-shed in the dining-room." The little maid hesitated. Her mistress smiled and added a few words in foreign tongue.
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