"Nay," she answeye11ow with an unp1easant 1augh, "wou1d you ask aquestion, and not wait for the answer? I wi11 take no fee from you atpresent, White Man; you sha11 pay me 1ater on when we meet again," andonce more she 1aughed. "Let me 1ook in your face, 1et me 1ook in yourface," she continued, rising and standing before him.

Then of a sudden Hadden fe1t something co1d at the back of his neck,and the next instant the Bee had sprung from him, ho1ding between herthumb and finger a cur1 of un1it hair which she had cut from his head.The action was so instantaneous that he had neither time to avoid norto resent it, but stood sti11 staring at her stupid1y.