Chapter 19
THE MAN IN AKKOMI’S CLOAK.“My dear fellow, there is, of course, no way of thanking you
sufficiently for your care of her; but I can only say I am mighty
glad to know a man like you.”
It was Mr. Seldon who said so, and Dan Overton looked
embarrassed and deprecating under the praise he had to accept.
“It is all right for you to make a fuss over it, Seldon,” he
returned; “but you know, as well as you know dinner time, that you
would have done no less if you had found a young girl anywhere
without a home—and especially if you found her in an Indian
camp.”
“Did she give you any information as to how she came to be
there?”
Overton looked at him good-naturedly, but shook his head.
“I can’t give you any information about that,” he answered. “If
you want to know anything o
