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He was a great chief, with many horses and many squaws. He is dead." "My father was an Englishman, Philip Atherly!" said Peter, with an odd nervousness creeping over him. The interpreter repeated the words to Grey Eagle, who, after a guttural "Ugh!" answered in his own tongue.
"For the matter of that neither are the Indians," said the Hon. Evelyn Rayne. "Did you ever see such grotesque creatures in their cast-off boots and trousers? They're no better than gypsies. I wonder what Mr. Atherly can find in them." "And he a rich man, too, they say he's got a mine in California worth a million, to take up a craze like this," added the lively Mrs.
That none of them had ever suspected till they came to the fort that he, Atherly, was one of those government chappies, and so awfully keen on Indian politics. "Friddy" had been the first to find it out, but they thought she was chaffing.
"We hear with regret of the death of Philip Atherly, Esq., of Rough and Ready, California. Mr. Atherly will be remembered by some of our readers as the hero of the romantic elopement of Miss Sallie Magregor, daughter of Colonel 'Bob' Magregor, which created such a stir in well-to-do circles some thirty years ago.
It was such a stupid thing for me to show him that tomb of Major Atherly, you know, who fought the Americans, didn't he? or was it later? but I quite forgot he was an American."
In her abstraction from worldly ambitions she had, naturally, taken no part in her brother's family pretensions. He had given her an independent allowance, and she was supposed to be equally a sharer in his good fortune. Yet she had suddenly declared her intention of returning to Atherly, to consult him on affairs of importance.
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