“I stained it—­The Stone made me—­and when I saw Sweet Grass liked me best so, I put on the color again and yet again.”

“God be praised!  I have found my darling who, I thought, was lost forever.”  The man lifted Timid Hare and clasped her tenderly in his arms.  And she—­well, the little girl rested there content and happy.

The next minute the rest of the party who had been out exploring, entered the tent with word that the start must be made at once.  The clouds of the night before had lifted; the snow might not begin falling for several hours, and the most must be made of the morning towards reaching a larger camp where sledges would carry them a long ways towards a fur station.

Great was the joy of the others when they learned the good fortune that had come to their friend, and merry was the whole party as it made its way onward.  Yes, Timid Hare, or rather Alice, now more like the Swift Fawn she had been, was merry too.  But as she went on her way to the new and beautiful life that would soon be hers, she begged her father to take her back by-and-by for a visit to her foster-parents and Big Moose in the Mandan village on the river.  And he promised gladly.

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