CHAPTER XV.
Mr.Selincourt is Indiscreet When Katherine reached home that night after doing the "backache portage" it seemed to be the last straw to her burden of endurance to be told that Mr.Selincourt had arrived.

The loss of the supper fish did not trouble her, for she and Phil had brought home a fine salmon, which they had taken from an Indian woman in exchange for a couple of small packets of hairpins, which in England might have fetched perhaps a halfpenny each, but in that remote district were priced at a quarter of a dollar.

It was the news of the arrival which upset her so badly.

She suffered tortures while she listened to Mrs.Burton's eager talk about the Selincourts, of Mr.
Selincourt's kindly manner, and Miss Selincourt's graceful charm.
"Hush, hush!" she kept saying.

"You will excite and worry Father with all this talk of new people." "I don't think so," Mrs.Burton replied.