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and the girl slid lightly to the 

 ground. 



Two weeks later the inhabitants of 

 the handful of houses that comprised 

 the Crow Agency were in a state of wild 

 excitement. Arabella Horsetail was to 

 be married that morning to Mont- 

 gomery Whiteleg the Montgom- 

 ery dating from the week before, 

 when the Indian had submitted to 

 being baptised and christened, any 

 English name taken at random, on 

 which occasion Mr. Warwick ignored 

 the fact that although Whiteleg 

 knew a good deal of English, he 

 took no part in this ceremony, ex- 

 cept through an interpreter, and 

 thanked God that His ''poor servant 

 had been the means of bringing to 

 the fold another of those benighted 

 children, and that He in His provi- 

 dence, had thus miraculously inter- 

 ceded to change the heart of the 

 unregenerate, so that disgrace might 

 not fall upon one already in the fold." 



In fact Arabella Horsetail had 

 found the way of her marriage 

 with Whiteleg remarkably smooth. 

 When she had walked into the 

 missionary's room at the school after 



