Come, fellows, help carry Auntie Graham's things down to the
wagon. We've got to get started pretty pronto."
They were all ready to start when an orderly dashed up on horseback, and
handed Hallie a letter, saluted, and rode off.
The girl tore open the envelope, and read its contents.
"What shall I do?" she asked, handing the letter to Ted.
Ted's eyes ran over it rapidly.
"Forget it," he answered, crumpling the note in his hand and throwing it
away.
CHAPTER XXIX.
RUNNING BEAR'S SQUAW.
As they rode away to join the herd, which had been moving slowly
northward, Hallie and Stella rode together, and Hallie was telling her
friend what she felt, and what she thought about her break with
Lieutenant Barrows.
"That note was the most impertinent thing I ever read," Hallie was
saying.
"What was it all about? Ted did not think it was of much importance,"
said Stella.
"And yet it was all about him."
"You don't say so. What was it?"
Stella was not very curious about the letter, for she was too free and
independent to care what an enemy said of her or her friends. She had
that intense loyalty of character that put tried and chosen friends
before all the world, and she believed and stuck to her friends through
all and above all. But this was a characteristic of all the broncho
boys.
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