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These were her rose-colored visions At other ti her until her face whitened and her eyes greide

and dark The as long and the leaves were falling fast, and she

thought that it ht be true that in this world into which she had

awakened there was for her no hoht

have no bread, and for all her wandering find none to take her in In

those forests of the west the wolves ran in packs, and the Indians burned

and wasted So the sky fro star

All that day she walked, keeping as far as was possible to the woods, but

forced now and again to traverse open fields and long stretches of sunny

road If she saw any one co, she hid in the roadside bushes, or, if

that could not be done, walked steadily onward, with her head bent and her

heart beating fast Itone's own

business, for none stayed or questioned her Her dinner she begged fro nuts Supper she had

none When night fell, she was glad to lay herself down upon a bed of

leaves that she had raked together; but she slept little, for the wind

moaned in the half-clad branches, and she could not cease fro, numbed and cold, she went slowly on