The Pathfinder

Chapter 22

Spectre though I be,

I am not sent to scare thee or deceive;

But in reward of thy fidelity.

WORDSWORTH.

It would be difficult to say which evinced the most satisfaction,

when Mabel sprang to her feet and appeared in the centre of the

room, our heroine, on finding that her visitor was the wife of

Arrowhead, and not Arrowhead himself, or June, at discovering that

her advice had been followed, and that the blockhouse contained the

person she had so anxiously and almost hopelessly sought. They

embraced each other, and the unsophisticated Tuscarora woman laughed

in her sweet accents as she held her friend at arm's length, and

made certain of her presence.

"Blockhouse good," said the young Indian; "got no scalp."

"It is indeed good, June," Mabel answered, with a shudder, veiling

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