"O no, I don't, but the doctor does, and I may as well keep his mind easy," replied Louise. Edward had risen to his feet, and waited silently but evidently impatiently. "Can't I persuade you to take a little before we go? Do; you look so pale this morning," persisted Mrs. Sherman, herself lifting the goblet towards her husband. Determined not to have any more words, Edward hastily drank the proffered beverage, and immediately left the place. When they had fairly disappeared, Little Wolf sank back in her chair, and breathed hard as if awaking from a terrible night mare. "O, I was so afraid they would discover me," she gasped. "They were once good friends of mine," she continued with an effort at composure, "but you won't care will you, dear good Annie, if I don't tell you how it came to be otherwise?" Annie looked a little disappointed, but she magnanimously put Little Wolf at her ease by saying, "No indeed, for I'm sure it was no fault of yours." In absence of evidence, Annie of course, put her own construction on what had occured, and mentally voted Edward a villain, and his wife and sister his accomplices. This opinion she expressed to her brother, when in an hour of confidence, she glowingly pictured the scene. "I think the young man must be at the bottom of the mischief," she said, "for he was even more agitated than Little Wolf. He had recognized her from the first, although I cannot devine how, for she sat with her back to them." "I would have known her among a thousand," cried young Marsden, enthusiastically. "O, then, I suppose he must have been an old lover," said his sister mischievously. CHAPTER XXXIV. A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA--JUMPING OVERBOARD---THE GRAND SUPPER AND WHAT CAME OF IT--THE CAPTAIN'S LITTLE DAUGHTER. As the most agreeable method of conveying to the reader a correct account of Little Wolf's adventures, and personal feelings during her journeying, we will quote largely from letters addressed from time to time to her friend, Mrs. Tinknor. "From the first we take the following: