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The Indian who told it hated your father." Diane sat so white and still that Carl touched her diffidently upon the arm. "Don't look so!" he pleaded. "There was some difficulty at first, for Philip's Seminole is nearly as fragmentary as the old chief's English, but they called in Sho-caw and after a host of blunders and misunderstandings, Philip ran the thing to earth at last.
I I think I had better go away again." "There was a time, in the days of Arcadia, when Philip would have laughed, and a second deer would have lain at the door of your wig-wam " "Philip is changed." "He is quieter " "Yes." "A little sterner " "Yes." "Like one perhaps who has abandoned a dream!" "I do not know." "Why does he ride away for days with Sho-caw?" "I have wondered."
"You wrote me something in one of your letters, that Dick and Carl were planning to camp and hunt wild turkeys in the Glades. Let me know what luck they had and all the news. "Ever yours, "Diane." Now, if Diane proved readily adaptable to the wild life about her, no less did Philip. At night he smoked comfortably by his camp fire, unwound the hullabaloo upon request or lent it to Sho-caw.
"And now," said the rain with a soft gust of flying drops, "now there is Sho-caw!" "Yes," said Diane with a sigh, "there is Sho-caw. I am very sorry." "But," warned the rain, "one must not forget. At Keela's teaching you have fallen into the soft, musical tongue of these Indian folk with marvelous ease. And you wear the Seminole dress of a chief " "Yes. After all, that was imprudent "
The paper stuffed in the candle-stick in a reckless moment had been but the ingenious figment of a man's brain for the entertainment of an hour. The old chief and Sho-caw with their broken tale to Philip had but tangled the net the more.
Presently the Thunder-Man was warmly assigned a wigwam, made of palmetto and the skins of wild animals above a split-log floor, to which he retired at the heels of Sho-caw, a copper-colored young warrior who had learned a little English from the traders.
"A prince an Indian warrior and a spy!" "Not that!" cried the girl's heart. "No, no not that!" "You breathed it but a minute ago!" "I know " "And of the three, Sho-caw, bright copper though he is, is perhaps braver " "No!" "Taller " "He is not so tall as Philip."
He rode hard and fearlessly with the warriors, hunted bear and alligator, acquired uncommon facility in the making of sof-ka, the tribal stew, and helped in the tanning of pelts and the building of cypress canoes. Presently the unmistakable whir of a sewing machine which Sho-caw had bought from a trader, floated one morning from Philip's wigwam. Keela reported literally that Mr.
Carl grew browner and sturdier day by day. His eyes were quieter. There was less of arrogance too in the sensitive mouth and less of careless assertiveness in his manner. So matters stood when Philip rode in by the southern trail with Sho-caw.
"You can ride and shoot an arrow swift and far. Your eyes are keen and your tread lithe and soft like a fawn " "It is all the wild lore of the woodland I learned as a child." "But Sho-caw does not know! To him the gypsy heart of you, the sun-brown skin and scarlet cheeks, the night-black hair beneath the turban, are but the lure and charm of an errant daughter of the O-kee-fee-ne-kee wilderness.
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