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The voice of the bird rose and fell, and circled round and round, but whithersoever floated or spread out its notes, they seemed ever to have their center where Minda sat; and she looked with sad eyes into the sad eyes of the mournful bird, that sat in his red and deep-blue plumage just opposite to the flowery bank.
As if he had but waited to be spoken to, the bird left his branch, and alighting upon the bank, smiled on Minda, and, shaking his shining plumage, answered: "I am bound in this condition until a maiden shall accept me in marriage. I have wandered these groves and sung to many and many of the Indian girls, but none ever heeded my voice till you.
"Good man!" he said, and sat down on the bridge deck. "Do you really believe the boys were put on board the steamer?" asked Frank of Ned, in a moment. "I think the native chiefs would put us all on board the steamer, if they could do so," was the reply. Then the patrol leader turned to Minda again. "What did the steamer come down here for?" he asked. "Patrol," was the reply.
Across this beautiful prairie, Minda had one morning made her way to gather dry limbs for their fire; for she disdained no labor of the lodge. And while enjoying the sweetness of the air and the green beauty of the woods, she strolled far away.
"So the officers on board the steamer communicated with the shore?" asked Ned. "Yes; that's how I got away," was the reply. "Do the officers know what is going on?" continued Ned. Again Minda shook his head. "I reckon you're off there," Pat exclaimed. "They do know, and the man in charge on board the steamer is a traitor! I know him!" Again the Filipino looked puzzled.
To the Senate of the United States: I submit to the Senate, for the constitutional action of that body, a treaty concluded on the 11th day of August last with the Minda Wankanton bands of the Dakota or Sioux Nation of Indians, with the papers necessary to an understanding of the subject. WASHINGTON, April 28, 1842.
If I stay another second longer I'll say something mean and spiteful, because I AM mean and spiteful, and no one knows it better than I do. Good-bye, Kenneth Gwynne." "Good-bye, Minda Carter," he said softly, and again raised her hand to his lips. "My little Minda grown up to be the most beautiful queen in all the world." She turned and fled swiftly into the house.
He said that he would come to the lodge at sunset, and immediately took wing, while Minda hung fondly upon his flight, till he was lost far away in the blue sky. With the twilight the bird lover, whose name was Monedowa, appeared at the door of the lodge, as a hunter, with a red plume and a mantle of blue upon his shoulders.
While the widow woman was still lost in wonder at these words, Monedowa, and Minda his wife, changed at the same moment, rose into the air, as beautiful birds, clothed in shining colors of red and blue.
He had reached a decision during that lonely ride. He would not remain in Lafayette. He foresaw misery and unhappiness for himself if he stayed there, for, be it here declared, he was in love with Viola Gwyn. No, worse than that, he was in love with Minda Carter, and therein lay all the bitterness that filled his soul. He could never have her.
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