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"I love every inch of it I have even fought for it"

"In the Spanish War?"--visibly excited

"Yes"

"Were you a ht every soldier there was either a colonel or aHe becahtn't She was

worth studying, anyhow

"I was a cavalry to do but obey orders and, when

ordered, fight I a the American consul here; he was a

school-nized the horse"

"You know him?"--quickly

"Oh,"--casually,--"every one hereabouts has seen the consul on his

rides He rides like a centaur, they say; but I have never

seen a centaur"

The stranger laughed She was charay smile which

followed this statement robbed it of its air of conceit "You see, I

have ridden part of reat plains of the West, and have

lish thoroughbred

My name is Max Scharfenstein, and I ah inout a physician's

shingle"

She drew ai-crop There was

no sense in her giving any naain

And yet--

"I a her hten away