Chapter 14: New-Comers

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​⁠Many days went by after that before more time was given to the hunting of gold in that particular valley of the Kootenai lands; for before another day broke, the squaw spoke at the door of Overton's tent and told him the girl was sick with fever, that she talked as a little child babbles and laughs at nothing.

He went with her, and the face he had seen so pale in the moonlight was flushed a rosy re