CHAPTER VII.
Music—The Warning—Preparations For Winter Interrupted—The Welcome Boat.
hree months had passed, and during that time, Dr. DeWolf had entirely recovered his health. Prime Hawley was up and doing, following with renewed vigor his former pursuits; threats and entreaties had wrung from him a half-hearted confession, but, out of pity for his wife, the affair was hushed up, and he was saved from merited punishment.
Bloody Jim had not been seen or heard of, and he alone carried the secret of Hank Glutter's criminal designs.
Edward Sherman had become an almost daily visitor at Dr. DeWolf's, and while his friend Dr. Goodrich was establishing himself in his profession at Pendleton, he was gradually gaining a more certain hold, on the affections of Little Wolf.
Our heroine was still, to all appearance, the same little bundle of contradictions that she had always been.
"There, I'm always sure to do the very thing I say I will not do," she said to herself half pettishly, as she opened her piano with a jerk, and ran her fingers carelessly, over the keys, one fine October day.
Very soon she was quite absorbed, in practicing a difficult piece of music, which her lover had, heretofore, recommended in vain.