Part 37 (1/2)
”And Mother Hull?”
”S by the fire She will sleep I have put some powder in her tobacco”
Cora murmured a protest
”Oh, she likes it,” and the queen suards?”
”One went to gaave hi pole I have fixed it all”
”Good girl You told him I wanted fish for breakfast, and you told the other he could spend his money at the inn Lena, I wish you _could_ co I will not stay here”
”But in the one--what then?”
”In the ,” said Cora, ”it does not matter what We shall be safe some place Yes, Lena, ill take you This is no life for any girl”
Lena fell on her knees and kissed Cora's hands wildly She had befriended Cora ever since she saw her lying so still and white in that aagon, and now she et her reward
”You will co is safe,” said Helka ”That will be our signal”
Lena went aith a sirl, but she longed for another life, and felt keenly the injustice of that to which she was enslaved
”Then I will sing,” said Cora ”See, the stars are coht will help us I havethe stones fro them where I could feel theirl, Cora, and your world e ways--but et that?”
”Never fear about the htfully yours you will get My friends are always the friends of justice”
”And they will not fear the tribe?”
”The tribe will fear the?'”
”Yes,” and Helka lay back on her low divan
Again Cora fingered the guitar Daintily her fingers awoke the chords
Then she sang, first low, then fuller and fuller until her voice rang out in the night
”Trust hih his voice be low and sweet, For he only seeks to win you, Then to crush you at his feet!”
At each stanza Cora seeain neer in her voice Helka raised herself on her arm She was enchanted The last line had not died on Cora's lips when Helka repeated:
”Yes, I aypsy's only child!”
The remark was rather a plaint, and Cora came over very close to Helka
”You ,” she said ”I want one to surprisethem?”