l. Well,
Captain Vidall should face it in all its crudeness. So, in a week or
less, Marion and Mrs. Townley were in Greyhope.

Two months had gone since Lali arrived in England, and yet no letter had
come to her, or to any of them, from Frank. Frank's solicitor in London
had written him fully of her arrival, and he had had a reply, with
further instructions regarding money to be placed to General Armour's
credit for the benefit of his wife. Lali, as she became Europeanised,
also awoke to the forms and ceremonies of her new life. She had
overheard Frank's father and mother wondering, and fretting as they
wondered, why they had not received any word from him. General Armour
had even called him a scoundrel, which sent Frank's mother into tears.
Then Lali had questioned Mackenzie and Colvin, for she had increasing
shrewdness, and she began to feel her actual position. She resented
General Armour's imputation, but in her heart she began to pine and
wonder. At times, too, she was fitful, and was not to be drawn out. But
she went on improving in personal appearance and manner and in learning
the English language. Mrs. Townley's appearance marked a change in her.
When they met she suddenly stood still and trembled. When Mrs. Townley
came to her and took her hand and kissed her, she shivered, and then
caught her about the shoulders lightly, but was silent. After a little
she said: "Come--come to my wigwam, and talk with me."

She said it with a strange little smile, for now she recognised that
the word wigwam was not to be used in her new life. But Mrs. Townley
whispered: "Ask Marion to come too."

Lali hesitated, and then said, a little maliciously: "Marion, will you
come to my wigwam?"

Marion ran to her, caught her about the waist, and replied gaily: "Yes,
we will have a pow-wow--is that right--is pow-wow right?"

The Indian girl shook her head with a pretty vagueness, and vanished
with them. General Armour walked up and down the room briskly, then
turned on his wife and said: "Wife, it was a brutal thing: Frank doesn't
deserve to be--the father of her child."

But Lali had moods--singular moods. She indulged in one three days after
the arrival of Marion and Mrs. Townley. She had learned to ride with the
side-saddle, and wore her riding-dress admirably. Nowhere did she show
to better advantage. She had taken to riding now with General Armour on
the country roads. On this day Captain Vidall was expected, he having
writt