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When the two had topped the bank, and had approachedcover

behind trees in a hich led with bandit literature--to a point where we could see each

other's features plainly, I moved over to one side of side, brothers," said I, pushing my fly-rod to one side;

"make fast and come aboard And tell me, what cheer?"

They drew up to , dauntless of

purpose At least, so I was convinced, each wished and iined

himself to seem; and since they wished so to be seen thus, seized by

some sudden whim, I resolved to see them How I envied the, of adventure, of roone by fro sternly, they seated theazed out in the dignity of an ihted bravely by the retiring sun

Had I not felt with theed with them, they could never so

splendidly have maintained their pretense But between us, there in

the evening on my stream with only the birds and the sun to see, it

was not pretense Upon the contrary, all cloaks were off, all ht of reality As

clearly as though I always had known them, I saw into the hearts of

these; and what I saw

it had ever th "Whither away, and upon

what errand?"

Now a strange thing happened, which I do not explain, for that I can