"
"And have you then met none who are white, but us?" interrupted the
girl, like one too impatient to await the tardy explanations of age
and deliberation.
"Not in many days--Hush, Hector, hush," he added in reply to a low,
and nearly inaudible, growl from his hound. "The dog scents mischief
in the wind! The black bears from the mountains sometimes make their
way, even lower than this. The pup is not apt to complain of the
harmless game. I am not so ready and true with the piece as I
used-to-could-be, yet I have struck even the fiercest animals of the
prairie in my time; so, you have little reason for fear, young woman."
The girl raised her eyes, in that peculiar manner which is so often
practised by her sex, when they commence their glances, by examining
the earth at their feet, and terminate them by noting every thing
within the power of human vision; but she rather manifested the
quality of impatience, than any feeling of alarm.
A short bark from the dog, however, soon gave a new direction to the
looks of both, and then the real object of his second warning became
dimly visible.
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