"Or shall we adopt her?"
A positive unwillingness sprang up in the child's heart.
"I think her mother would not let her come," she replied evasively.
"But you would like her? You are tired of being alone."
"No, I don't want any one but you for all time," she admitted, a little jealously.
He laughed. He was fond of this confession.
Miss Holmes' supper was satisfactory to the hungry man as well. Afterward they went out and sat on the flat stone step. That always made him think of his boyhood.
"Little one," he began, "how would you like to move? Or are the Estenegas too dear to give up?"
"Move!" in a tone of surprise.
"Yes. We haven't much worldly goods, as these traps do not belong to us. But we can take ourselves, Bruno, and Pelajo."