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JOSE. 139 had not the spirit of opposition been aroused within your heart on the first day of your arrival, and which now leads you to carry matters to an ex- tremity. Be assured that you are not going to be forced to anything, but I tell you candidly—that you may not believe Iam trifling with you—your return is utterly hopeless.” @uietly and firmly Mary had watched her father’s face. She looked stern, and her face grew deathly pale. “Very well,” she whispered. “Now I comprehend the situation fully.” She slowly arose. McGregor followed her ex- ample. | “Give me your hand, Mary, and let us meet the inevitable boldly, without uselessly burdening our lives,” he said in an affectionate tone. “Convince me that you can practice the philosophy which you preached this morning.” Followed by him, she left the room with a short “oood-night.” | That was a strange life in the fort which thence- forth began to present itself to a close observer. Mary seemed to have decided upon a prescribed plan to occupy herself; that was in direct con- sonance with that of the men. When in the morn- ing, in company of a number of domestics, Mc- Gregor and her father had left the fort to resume their work of surveying and to engage in prelim- inary measures for the establishment of a colony or a settlement, she would intimate to the overseer that she wished to see her pony, and soon the animal would be at her disposal. At first she had -confined the animal to the yard, there accustoming him to eat sugar, caressing him and familiarizing Gomicboo S (E(0)