That lying round you see
Are not our boots—they all belong
To Mr. Nobody.
A DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST
By Evelyn Raymond
CHAPTER IV
The Stranger’s Name
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
Brought up in the forests of northern Maine, and seeing few persons excepting her uncle and Angelique, the Indian housekeeper, Margot Romeyn knows little of life beyond the deep hemlocks. Naturally observant, she is encouraged in her out-of-door studies by her uncle, at one time a college professor. The cyclone from which they barely escape with their lives appeals to her only as an interesting phenomenon. Later in the same day, through her woodland instinct, she and her uncle are enabled to save the life of Adrian Wadislaw, a youth who, lost and almost overcome with hunger, has been wandering in the neighboring forest.
THRUSTING back the hair that had fallen over her eyes, Margot sprang up and stared at the floundering mass of legs, arms, and wings upon the wide lounge—a battle to the death, it seemed. Then she caught the assailant in her strong hands and flung him aside, while her laughter rang out in a way to make the stranger also stare, believing she had gone crazy with sudden fear.