“When we go down country, how’ll they get on without their—Chief Light?”

McLagan threw back his head in a great, unrestrained laugh. He suddenly took possession of the girl’s arm, and patted the hand that, for the moment, rested in his.

“Guess they’ll need to elect a—new one,” he said.

“Jubilee?”

The girl’s eyes were shining with the delight it gave her to show this great creature how deeply she had penetrated his secret.

“Maybe,” he said. “I don’t know, and—Psha! So long as I’ve got you, kid, I don’t care a darn.”

THE END

Transcriber’s Notes

  1. Removed duplicate title and author’s name at beginning of the book in HTML version.
  2. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been maintained, i.e.: up-standing/upstanding, get-away/get away, etc.
  3. [Page 28], Period added after “ordinary sort of engineer”.
  4. [Page 142], Period added after “faithful servant, too”.
  5. [Page 298], “Casper” changed to “Caspar”.