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"It would give a definite and unselfish direction to your own life, would it not, like those weeks at the farm with Wherry?" "Yes. You trust me, Mic-co?" "Utterly." Carl held out his hand. "One by one," said Mic-co, "fate is slipping into the groove of your life people who are destined to care greatly " "You mean " "It shall be Keela's to decide." "Mic-co, I cannot thank you. You and Philip "
And there was something in Keela's eyes that sent the blood coursing furiously through Carl's fevered veins. The Indian girl busied herself with the wild duck roasting in the hub of coals. Carl ate a little and lay down again. He saw now that Themar's horse was tethered beside Keela's that the dead man's saddlebags lay by the fire.
Cymbals clashed, the drum cannonaded fearfully and to the sprightly measures of "The Glowworm," the Indians who had collected about Keela's wagon to stare at Diane, decamped in a body to the side of Mr. Poynter, who smiled and proceeded in pantomime to make friends with all about him. This, by virtue of the entertaining music-machine, was not difficult.
He slept soundly until morning. When he awoke it was broad daylight. There was a curious sense of utter rest in his veins and meeting Keela's solicitous glance, he said, a little diffidently, that he was better and that he thought they might go on. After a breakfast of quail and wild cassava they rode on, Keela on Themar's horse. Her own obediently followed.
"Carl," he said quietly, "off there to the south is the eccentric swamp home of a singular man, a philosopher and a doctor. He's Keela's foster father. I've met and smoked with him. I want you to go to him and rest. The Indians do that. He's what you need. And tell him you're down and out. You'll go for me?" "Anywhere," said Carl.
For an instant his face flamed scarlet, then it grew white and hard and very grim. "Go!" said Diane and buried her face in her hands. With no final word of extenuation Philip went. Diane stumbled hurriedly through the trees to Keela's camp and touched the Indian girl frantically upon the shoulder. "Keela," she cried desperately, "wake! wake! It's sunrise.
The pounds and pounds of bead necklaces they wear give the savage touch. I don't wonder Keela's delicate soul rebelled and drove her to the barbaric costume of a chief. It is infinitely more picturesque and beautiful.
Thence it came by a winding road to the village, where, with the halting of the wagon, the travelers became the hub of a vast and friendly wheel of excitement. Hospitable hands were already leading Keela's horses away when Mr.
"It is a wild world of varied color and activity," she wrote to Ann. "The trailing air plants in the trees beside my wigwam weave a dense, tropical jungle of shadow shot with sunlight. Keela's wigwam lies but a stone's throw beyond.
It lay ahead, a fire-blot in the darkling swamp, a primitive mirage of primitive folk, of palmetto wigwams and log-wheel fires among the live oaks of a lonely island. Keela's wagon presently forded a shallow creek and crossed an island plain.
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