206 ARRIVAL AT FORT PIERRE. 



After a few days of pleasant travel, they arrived at 

 Fort Pierre, where they were warmly received by Mr. 

 Frazer. Here both the young men found former ac- 

 quaintances, who welcomed them with acclamation; 

 and many were the stories told of hairbreadth escapes, 

 and adventures by flood and field, that had happened 

 since the friends had met. 



At the fort time passed pleasantly. Jake, indeed, 

 who seemed indifferent to all considerations of time or 

 place, provided his wants of meat and tobacco were 

 supplied, resigned himself to the enjoyments of eating 

 and giving or receiving news with great content. As 

 may readily be supposed, Pierre found himself the 

 guest of Miss Frazer's father with a feeling of satisfac- 

 tion. The fascinating girl whose life he had saved was 

 his hostess, and in her society the days seemed to pass 

 very rapidly. 



Each day some new obstacle was discovered to im- 

 pede his departure ; and although some hunting ex- 

 cursions were planned, in which Jake and Gaultier 

 participated, Pierre preferred to act the idler, and 

 spent the time in escorting Miss Frazer to various 

 points of interest in the neighbourhood. 



This marked attention on the part of the young 

 trapper did not escape the observation of the residents 

 at the fort. Among these there was one to whom the 

 growing intimacy between Miss Frazer and the trapper 

 was especially distasteful. This was a clerk in the 

 employment of the young lady's father. 



