THE FOLLY OF SOLOMON
69
season and it would make me certain to come. Your uncle knew that a chief is to be trusted."
Derek felt in his pocket. The five dollars was transferred to the hand of Solomon. "The gulls are flying low, and screaming," he said, his eyes raised to the tree-tops. "That means a storm." He muttered a sentence in Indian to the woman who, raising the heavy bundles, followed him meekly through the orchard.
