Red Wolf hardly knew what to say, but he was pretty well used to seeing Ni-ha-be have her own way. He was pleased that they had stopped short of so grave an offense as speaking.
"Rita will go. She will bring the talking leaves by-and-by. Red Wolf has a question to ask of his brother. Ni-ha-be go too."
Steve would have been glad to make a longer "call" upon the daughters of the great chief, but they quietly walked away, as became them, not even laughing until they were at some distance.
Then it was Ni-ha-be who laughed, for Rita was thinking about the talking leaves, and wishing with all her heart that she could manage to ask some questions of her own concerning them.
"If he could not answer me, I am sure Send Warning could. He is old and he is wise, and I know he is good."
[to be continued.]
[THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS.]
BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.
When Louis XIV. was King of France, that country was Catholic, as it is still, but in the mountainous region called the Cevennes more than half the people were Protestants. At first the King consented that these Protestant people should live in quiet, and worship as they pleased; but in those days men were not tolerant in matters of religion, as they are now, and so after a while King Louis made up his mind that he would compel all his people to believe alike. The Protestants of the Cevennes were required to become Catholics. When they refused, soldiers were sent to compel them, and great cruelties were practiced.