“I know!” she exclaimed, “Idazoo is shrieking! We should have put the cloth over her nose! She has got her mouth free and—”
Another sharp yell rendered it needless for her to complete the sentence.
“Come,” she said, laying hands on the canoe. “Turn it round. We will go!”
A few minutes more and the pair were flying down the swift current of the little river as fast as they could dip their paddles in the stream.
Chapter Ten.
A Wild Chase and a Bad Failure.
It does not necessarily require the influences of civilised life to make an honourable, upright man, any more than it needs the influences of savage life to make a thorough scoundrel. Of course the tendency of civilisation is to elevate, of savagery to debase, nevertheless it is certain that as we occasionally see blackguards in the highest ranks, so we sometimes find men and women with exalted conceptions of right and wrong in the lowest circles of life.
The truth would seem to be that the Spirit of God is not confined to ranks or conditions of men—a fact that appears to be confirmed by the Scripture statement that “in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is acceptable to Him.”