, a Nimrod who killed
two birds with one stone," said Mr. Strong, but Ted laughed and said:

"So I got the one I shot at, I don't care." They had wild duck at
supper that night, for Chetwoof plucked the birds and roasted them on a
hot stone over the spruce logs, and Ted, tired and wet and hungry,
thought he had never tasted such a delicious meal in his life.

CHAPTER IV

TED MEETS MR. BRUIN

It seemed to Ted as if he had scarcely touched the pillow on the nights
which followed before it was daylight, and he would awake to find the sun
streaming in at his tent flap. He always meant to go fishing with Kalitan
before breakfast, so the moment he woke up he jumped out of bed, if his
pile of fragrant pine boughs covered with skins could be called a bed,
and hurried through his toilet. Quick as he tried to be, however, he was
never ready before Kalitan, for, when Ted appeared, the Indian boy had
always had his roll in the snow and was preparing his lines.

Kalitan was perfectly fascinated with the American boy. He thought him
the most wonderful specimen of a boy that he had ever seen. He knew so
much that Kalitan did not, and talked so brightly that being with Ted was
to the Indian like having a book without the bother of reading. There
were some things about him that Kalitan could not understand, to be sure.
Ted talked to his father just as if he were another boy. He even spoke to
Tyee Klake on occasions when that august personage had not only not asked
him a question, but was not speaking at all. From the Thlinkit point of
view, this was a most remarkable performance on Ted's part, but Kalitan
thought it must be all right for a "Boston boy," for even the stern old
chief seemed to regard happy-go-lucky Ted with approval.

Ted, on the other hand, thought Kalitan the most remarkable boy he had
ever met in all his life. He had not been much with boys. His "Lady
Mother," as he always called the gentle, brown-eyed being who ruled his
father and himself had not cared to have her little Galahad mingle with
the rougher city boys who thronged the streets, and had kept him with
herself a great deal. Ted had loved books, and he and his little sister
Judith had lived in a pleasant atmosphere of refinement, playing happily
together until the boy had grown almost to dread anything common or low.
His mother knew he had moral courage, and would face any issue pluckily,
but his father feared he would grow up a milksop, and though