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 terrogation point. "What's the gal drivin' at?" he asked under his breath; and her father said gravely, " Stop talking nonsense, Jean/ It was mutually agreed upon that a logging-camp should be started at once, and the ground prepared during the coming rainy season for the foundation and erection of a combined sawmill, planer, and shingle-mill, and that Captain Ranger should return, as early as prafcticable, to the States, via the Isthmus, to purchase the necessary machinery, which could not at that time be procured on the Pacific Coast.

Soon thereafter Captain Ranger went to Portland to purchase the necessary supplies for the winter's use. Arriving there, he repaired, in his best Sunday suit, to the primitive hotel, and inquired for Mrs. Addicks.

The lady appeared, after long waiting, fastidiously gowned and so thoroughly at ease that all his thought of the superior quality of the white man's blood departed as he saw her, and he stood in her presence in embarrassed silence.

"Won't you be seated, Mr.—"

"Ranger," he said, fumbling his hat awkwardly and shambling into the proffered chair.

"To what am I indebted for this visit, Mr. Ranger?"

"You will please excuse me, ma'am," he said, crossing his legs clumsily, "but I have come to see you on a little business that concerns us both. Your husband is my brother."

"Then, sir, you can tell me something about his family. Do his parents yet live?"

"They were alive and well at last accounts; but it takes two months or more for a letter to go and come. Our grandmother died recently."

"The dear old lady he calls ' Grannie '?"

"Yes."

"My husband will be grieved to hear of this. I must