n's only child, is in love with Jack Alston,
who is 'poor, but clever.' Mrs. Parkinson, however, will not hear of any
marriage till the deceased Alderman has materialised himself and given
his formal consent. A seance is held at which Jack Alston unmasks the
medium and shows Dr. Josiah Brown to be an impostor--a foolish act, on
his part, as he is at once ordered to leave the house by the infuriated
Mrs. Parkinson, whose faith in the Doctor is not in the least shaken by
the unfortunate exposure.

The lovers are consequently parted. Jack sails for Newfoundland, is
shipwrecked and carefully, somewhat too carefully, tended by 'La-ki-wa,
or the Star that shines,' a lovely Indian maiden who belongs to the tribe
of the Micmacs. She is a fascinating creature who wears 'a necklace
composed of thirteen nuggets of pure gold,' a blanket of English
manufacture and trousers of tanned leather. In fact, as Mr. Stuart
Cumberland observes, she looks 'the embodiment of fresh dewy morn.' When
Jack, on recovering his senses, sees her, he naturally inquires who she
is. She answers, in the simple utterance endeared to us by Fenimore
Cooper, 'I am La-ki-wa. I am the only child of my father, Tall Pine,
chief of the Dildoos.' She talks, Mr. Cumberland informs us, very good
English. Jack at once entrusts her with the following telegram which he
writes on the back of a five-pound note:--

Miss Violet Parkinson, Hotel Kronprinz, Franzensbad, Austria.--Safe.
JACK.

But La-ki-wa, we regret to say, says to herself, 'He belongs to Tall
Pine, to the Dildoos, and to me,' and never sends the telegram.
Subsequently, La-ki-wa proposes to Jack who promptly rejects her and,
with the usual callousness of men, offers her a brother's love. La-ki-wa,
naturally, regrets the premature disclosure of her passion and weeps. 'My
brother,' she remarks, 'will think that I have the timid heart of a deer
with the crying voice of a papoose. I, the daughter of Tall Pine--I a
Micmac, to show the grief that is in my heart. O, my brother, I am
ashamed.' Jack comforts her with the hollow sophistries of a civilised
being and gives her his photograph. As he is on his way to the steamer
he receives from Big Deer a soiled piece of a biscuit bag. On it is
written La-ki-wa's confession of her disgraceful behaviour about the
telegram. 'His thoughts,' Mr. Cumberland tells us, 'were bitter towards
La-ki-wa, but they gradually softened when he remembered what he