iages, baggage-carts and
boxes. This region is the heart of the country occupied by the Cangua
Indians, a peaceable tribe who speak the Guarani language, without the
admixture of Spanish words which prevails in the language as spoken in
the more civilized parts of Paraguay. They rarely leave their forest
homes except to seek a market for their wax, which they exchange for
tobacco and other commodities. Their complexion is a dark brown, and the
men, who usually go armed with bows and iron-tipped lances, wear a
splinter of a substance like amber, about two inches in length, run
through a hole in their under lips. In the almost inaccessible country
of these Indians is situated the great cascade of the Panama River,
known as the Gran Salto de la Guayra. This Paraguayan Niagara is the
object of a superstitious reverence on the part of the Indians, who deem
it the gateway to the infernal regions, and hence fear to approach it.
The waters fall into a deep gorge with a roaring sound which may be
heard twelve miles away, while splendid rainbows are generated in the
clouds of spray that rise from the depths.

THREE FEATHERS.

BY WILLIAM BLACK, AUTHOR OF "A PRINCESS OF THULE."

CHAPTER XXXIII.

SOME OLD FRIENDS.

When they heard that Wenna was coming down the road they left Mr.
Roscorla alone: lovers like to have their meetings and partings
unobserved.

She went into the room, pale and yet firm: there was even a sense of
gladness in her heart that now she must know the worst. What would he
say? How would he receive her? She knew that she was at his mercy.

Well, Mr. Roscorla at this moment was angry enough, for he had been
deceived and trifled with in his absence; but he was also anxious, and
his anxiety caused him to conceal his anger. He came forward to her with
quite a pleasant look on his face: he kissed her and said, "Why, now,
Wenna, how frightened you seem! Did you think I was going to scold you?
No, no, no! I hope there is no necessity for that. I am not
unreasonable, or over-exacting, as a younger man might be: I can make
allowances. Of course I can't say I liked what you told me when I first
heard of it; but then I reasoned with myself: I thought of your lonely
position, of the natural liking a girl has for the attentions of a young
man, of the possibility of any one going thoughtlessly wrong. And really
I see no great harm done. A passing fancy--that is all."

"Oh, I hope that is so!" she cried suddenl