RECREATION 



Volume XVIII. MARCH, J903. Number 3. 



G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA,) Editor and Manager 



WITH THE BEST INTENTIONS. 



F. M. BERNARD. 



''Please accept this as coming from then the latter, shrinking a bit, held 



one whose eyes are like yours," said out her hand and the bag fell into it. 



Mr. Halsey Pyne, of New York, to an "Thank you," said the youth. He 



Indian girl with fine grey eyes, who, would have said more only he saw the 



leaning against a pony, was standing mother coolly take the parcel from the 



guard over a lot of rations lying on daughter and slip it into one of the 



the ground about her. As he spoke many folds of the blanket thrown 



he held out a paper bag of the cheap loosely around her shoulders and kept 



candy beloved by the aboriginal pal- in place at the waist by a strap, 



ate. ''Oh, see here, that's for the girl, 



By way of reply she gave him a not for you," he cried, emphasizing 



timid, startled glance ; not under- his words with what he imagined was 



standing a word he said, she could sign language. 



scarcely answer with words. He The old dame's retort raised shouts 

 pressed his gift upon her. Shyly, of laughter, whereupon she repeated 

 with a delightful smile and drooping it. Determined to carry out his in- 

 head, working the while the toe of her tention, he demanded the return of the 

 snow-white moccasin into the loose package, and when the old woman, 

 earth, murmuring low as a cooing keeping up her incessant chatter, 

 dove something in choice Sioux, she showed plainly her intention to dis- 

 looked across the bare plateau in front honor his demand, he attempted to 

 of the agency, alive and bustling as it take it ; whereupon her voice rose to 

 always is on ration day ; at Straight a shriek and the Indian men closed in 

 Oak, a young buck a few yards off, on the pair. Undeterred by this, he 

 attired in the height of Indian ele- kept up the pursuit, and the spectacle 

 gance ; at the sky ; everywhere except was presented of a society millionaire 

 at her white admirer. For the in- with high political ambitions, a zeal- 

 stant his thoughts strayed to the own- ous champion of the oppressed In- 

 er of another pair of grey eyes, in the dian, dodging about to the laughter 

 East, that filled with tears when he of a crowd of red men and women, 

 bade her farewell, and would glow chasing a smoke-dried old squaw, who 

 with pleasure on his return. easily eluded him. Lieutenant Viv- 



Suddenly there was a patter of feet, yan, with whom he was spending the 



and a sack of flour, a side of bacon summer at the neighboring fort, put 



and a few other articles dropped on an end to the scene by forcing himself 



the ground from the head and shoul- into the throng. 



ders of a middle-aged squaw, who "By Jove, old man, what are you 



straightened herself without a break up to now?" Vivyan demanded, 



in the cackle she had kept up since "Up to now !" retorted Pyne indig- 



coming in sight. Question and an- nantly and a little blown. "Up to 



swer passed between her and the girl, enough. I gave this girl some candy 



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