That simple rosebud
with which most heroines exclusively decorate their hair, was all
she wore in her raven locks.
The Judge was the first to break the silence.
"Genevra, the logs which compose yonder fire seem to have been
incautiously chosen. The sibilation produced by the sap, which
exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition."
"True, father, but I thought it would be preferable to the constant
crepitation which is apt to attend the combustion of more seasoned
ligneous fragments."
The Judge looked admiringly at the intellectual features of the
graceful girl, and half forgot the slight annoyances of the green
wood in the musical accents of his daughter. He was smoothing her
hair tenderly, when the shadow of a tall figure, which suddenly
darkened the doorway, caused him to look up.
CHAPTER II.
It needed but a glance at the new-comer to detect at once the form
and features of the haughty aborigine,--the untaught and
untrammelled son of the forest. Over one shoulder a blanket,
negligently but gracefully thrown, disclosed a bare and powerful
breast, decorated with a quantity of three-cent postage-stamps
which he had despoiled from an Overland Mail stage a few weeks
previous.
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