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Now, of course, the Indian girl had no idea as to where her father was. "See if you can hear anything about those performers," Ruth wrote to Tom. "Get word if you can to the Chief of the Osage Indians and tell him that his daughter is with me, and that she longs for his return. "I should love to make her happy by aiding in Chief Totantora's reappearance in his native land.

Yet I understand that he belongs to the very rich Osage tribe, and is really one of the big men of it." "Quite true," Ruth said. The story of Totantora's adventures in Germany was a thrilling one. But only by hearsay had Tom got the details. The Indians and other performers put in confinement by the Germans when the war began, had all suffered more or less.

Tom had learned a few words of the Osage tongue and could understand some of Totantora's gutturals. What the chief said seemed at one point to refer to Ruth, who, quite unconscious, was talking with Mr. Hammond across the room. Tom glanced at Ruth's back and shook his head slightly. But he made no audible comment upon what the Indian said.

One of the men was now attending to the mechanism. The other beat at Totantora's hands with the boathook. In a flash the chief let go of the rail with one hand and seized the staff of the implement. One powerful jerk, and he wrenched the boathook from the white man's grasp. The latter fell sprawling into the bottom of the boat.

No boat appeared from the direction of the camp, and it was past the hour now when Willie was to have called for them with the Gem. Why didn't he come? "Of course, Mr. Hammond doesn't expect us to swim home," complained Helen. "Something must have occurred. Totantora's being sent off so suddenly really worries me. Perhaps Mr.