The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 6 Page 11

“I ask you not to persist,” she said, “ — — for my sake if not for yours. What an officer or a soldier says to a girl in this fort makes her a trull in the eyes of any man who sees. Do you so desire to brand me, Mr. Loskiel?”

“No,” I said between my teeth, and turned to leave her. And, I think, it was something in my face that made her whisper low and hurriedly:

“Waiontha Spring! If you needs must see me for a moment more, come there!”

I scarcely heard, so tight emotion had me by the throat, and walked on blindly, all a-quiver. Yet, in my ears the strange wards sounded: “Waiontha — Waiontha — come to the Spring Waiontha — if you needs must see me.”