We'll give
you a reception then which may turn even your head. Ha! ha! you
thought we'd be worse than Indians. Well, I'll show you a lot of our
squaws in full evening dress and you'll own that my wife is the
prettiest in the tribe. Every day, until we started on this blasted
raid, I received a letter from her. I knew about as well what was
going on at home as if there. With my wife it was love almost at
first sight, but I can tell you that it's not 'out of sight out of
mind' with us. Time merely adds to the pure, bright flame, and such
a pair of lovers as we shall be when gray as badgers will be worth a
journey to you."
Miss Lou could maintain her self-control no longer. She burst into
tears and sobbed helplessly.
"You poor little girl," exclaimed the captain in deep commiseration.
"Here I've been talking like a garrulous fool when your heart is
burdened with some trouble that perhaps you would like to speak to
me about. Tell me, my child, just as little Sadie would."
"My heart is burdened with trouble, captain; it feels as if it would
break when I hear you talk so.
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