CHAPTER V. UMSLOPOGAAS MAKES A PROMISE
CHAPTER V.
UMSLOPOGAAS MAKES A PROMISENext morning at breakfast I missed Flossie and asked where she was.
“Well,” said her mother, “when I got up this morning I found a note put outside my door in which—But here it is, you can read it for yourself,” and she gave me the slip of paper on which the following was written:—
“D EAREST M—,—It is just dawn, and I am off to the hills to get Mr Q—a bloom of the lily he wants, so don’t expect me till you see me. I have taken the white donkey; and nurse and a couple of boys are coming with me—also something to eat, as I may be away all day, for I am determined to get the lily if I have to go twenty miles for it.—F LOSSIE.”
“I hope she will be all right,” I said, a little anxiously; “I never meant her to tro
