ch were chiefly on the head and appeared to
her to be very severe, although, in reality, they were not so, she set
the roasted bird before him and desired him to eat.

Of course she had put a great many questions to Wapaw while thus
occupied. Her residence with the Indians had enabled her to speak and
understand the Indian tongue a little, and, although she had some
difficulty in understanding much of what Wapaw said in reply, she
comprehended enough to let her know that a number of white men had been
killed by the savages, and that Wapaw was fleeing for his life.

On first hearing this a deadly paleness overspread her face, for she
imagined that the white people killed must be her own kindred; but Wapaw
quickly relieved her mind on this point.

After this he devoted himself entirely to the roasted bird, and Nelly
related to him, as well as she could, the particulars of her own and
Roy's escape from the Indians.

CHAPTER TWENTY.

MORE SURPRISING DISCOVERIES.

While they were thus occupied, a cry was heard to ring through the
forest. The Indian laid his hand on his gun, raised his head, which he
turned to one side in a listening attitude, and sat as still as a dark
statue. The only motion that could be detected in the man was a slight
action in his distended nostrils as he breathed gently.

This attitude was but momentary, however, for the cry was repeated ("Hi!
Nelly, hi!") in clear silvery tones, and Wapaw smiled as he recognised
Roy's voice, and quietly resumed his former occupation.

Nelly bounded up at once, and ran out to receive her brother, and tell
him of the arrival of their old friend.

She slipped on her snow-shoes, and went off in the direction of the cry.
On rounding the foot of a cliff she discovered Roy, standing as if he
had been petrified, with his eyes glaring at the snow with a mingled
look of surprise and alarm.

Nelly's step roused him.

"Ho! Nell," he cried, giving vent to a deep sigh of relief, "I'm
thankful to see you--but look here. What snow-shoe made _this_ track?
I came on it just this moment, and it pulled me up slick, I can tell
ye."

Nelly at once removed Roy's alarm, and increased his surprise by telling
him of the new arrival, who, she said, was friendly, but she did not
tell him that he was an old friend.

"But come, now, what have you got for dinner, Roy?" said Nelly, with an
arch smile, "for oh! I'm _so_ hungry."

Roy's countenance fell, and he looked like