The Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 2, November, 1884

t hung lifeless, serving only the purpose of pictured lines, one silvered in the light, the dark shadow of the other traced in clear outlines on the sail. The swash of the waves agai

e water, in the shadows as dark and smooth as a Claude Lorraine glass, showed far off in the moonlight faint quivers of its surface here and there, as if the breeze so longed for were coming to the idle boat. But it was too far off, or too faint, for it spent itself before reaching the watchers there, alth

e said, gravely, "the rope was all twisted. I've

l grave, but his dark eyes, roving from one to another, their laug

, Stephen," cried Katie Archdale. "I don

entleman sitting opposite Katie, pointing significantly at a curve of t

returned the girl, "for I hal

within a few miles of each other, and there had always been constant intercourse between their families. When boy and girl, Stephen, four years the elder, the two had played together, and they had grown up, as people said, like brother and sister. But of late it was rumored that the conduct of young Archdale was more loverlike than brotherly, and that, if Katie choose, the tie between them would one day be closer than that of cousinhood.

er"-beg

rs. Eveleigh, the las

a canoe came toward them going down the stream. Its Indian occup

s?" And the speaker pushed back his hat a trifle, and looked up a

t 'em down without mercy whenever they come spying about-it's the only way. They're friendly so long as they are afraid, and not a moment longer. For instance, why should that fellow stop? He saw three men whom he knew were armed, besides

," returned the other, indi

her friend, "has gone into a brown study; I don't believe she's heard or seen anything for the last ha

Eveleigh; "she'll give them all to you." The tone

tience, ho

e, still laughing, "and so do I. It's so funny to

," returned Elizabeth, joining

said Archdale to his opposite neighbor; "he

win looked at the young fellow with a new int

t Archdale. Suppose the shooting had been necessary, how could he speak of killing a human be

part, gazed at the sp

I know now what he means; he is talking of a fox that I shot two miles from his house, one t

ished his accou

ell a story, and we'll lay forfeits on the person that doesn'

ling. "But since we've been talking about the Indians, I will tell you something tha

s Eveleigh until the last," cried Archdale; "

h, flattered; "but if I do well," she added, "it must be remembere

rage of one of the early settlers of America, and was listened to with the attentio

"but it may be you've heard it before, since yo

rightness in her eyes. But certainly no tear fell, and when the next moment Katie declared it Elizabeth's turn for a story, she told some trifling anecdote that had

worth telling; only I cou

, and the scorn of his mouth deepened. "Admiration of one woman for another," he commented. "Pshaw! the girl lavishes everything; she will soon be bankrupt. She is drinking in the intoxication of Katie's beauty just as-no, not like me, of course. If ever there could be excuse for such a thing it would be here, for Katie is bewitching, she i

voice, interrupting his thoughts, "why

thing in this New World, which you all know so much more about than I do, for then there'd be every chance of my b

he saw that he was speaking, was at the moment claimed by Archdale; he was

tor's eyes as he began sh