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Hammond's hand. Totantora and his daughter were in danger of being brought into court after all, and Mr. Hammond did not wish that to come about. The Indian girl stepped lightly into the canoe and picked up the extra paddle. Her father leaped in after her, pushed the light craft away from the rock, and seized his own paddle.
Wonota scarcely glanced in the direction of the distant moving picture camp, and she said composedly: "It is Chief Totantora. He comes for me." The Indian in the canoe caused the craft to tear through the water. No such paddling had the two white girls ever seen before. Not a motion was lost on the part of Chief Totantora.
"Of course, Indians have family feelings, if they do seem to hide 'em so well." "I am sorry she went out alone," murmured Ruth. "Pooh! she isn't a child. And she'll not lose her way, that's sure," laughed Helen. "Anyway, we'll overtake her and give her a ride. Chief Totantora, too, if he will deign to step into the white man's car." Ruth said no more.
"But Wonota is not like the old squaws." "Wonota is quite an up-to-date young woman, let me tell you, Mr Totantora," Helen told him briskly. The party remained over night at a small hotel at Chippewa Bay; but in the morning Ruth and her companions entered a motor launch and were transported to an island where the film producing company had been established in several bungalows which Mr.
I don't care if you are the King of the Yaps," said Willie, the boatman. "I have my orders. This is private property. Stay where you are right where you are, mind! till I send for the boss." "You send for them two Injuns that is who our business is with," put in Bilby. "That Totantora and Wonota. I want to see them not that Hammond."
But she was brave to the point of recklessness, and she was at once excited regarding the suggested danger to her chum's plans. Bilby had already, Ruth understood, offered more money to Wonota and Totantora for their services than Mr. Hammond thought it wise to risk in the venture. And, after all, the temptation of money was great in the minds of the Indians.
"And if you had money how would you go about looking for Chief Totantora?" Helen asked her curiously. "I must go over there myself. I must search through that German country." "Plucky girl!" ejaculated Jennie. "But not a chance!" "You think not, lady?" asked Wonota, anxiously. "We three have been to Europe to France. We know something about the difficulties," said Ruth, quietly.
Ruth and Wonota would not hear to this. "I guess we have eluded Bilby," said the girl of the Red Mill; "but I shall not feel that Wonota is safe, Totantora, unless you are near her at all times. You must keep watch of your daughter. She is a valuable possession." For once Totantora smiled although it was grimly. "A squaw did not use to be counted for much in my nation," he said.
Totantora was to have had the berth; but when he saw it made up and noted the cramped and narrow quarters offered him, he shook his head decidedly. He spent the night in the porter's little room at the end of the car, and the porter, when he found out Totantora was an Indian chief, did not dare object for fear of being scalped! The party reached Hammond the following afternoon.
"Wonota is perfectly safe here, and surely Totantora can take care of himself with that little fat man, or with anybody else!" She entered the kitchen expecting to find the Indian girl at work with Aunt Alvirah in the old woman's sunny corner of the great room. The old woman was alone, however. "Where is Wonota?" Ruth asked.
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