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"I'm here," she said to her pale, yet happy face in the mirror "The

impossible has happened I have accepted Glenn's life I have answered

that strange call out of the West"

She wanted to throw herself on the sunlit woolly blankets of her bed and

hug the present happiness, to

dream of the future, but she could not lie or sit still, nor keep her

at actualities and possibilities of this place, nor

her hands fros

It developed, presently, that she could not have idled away the time

even if she had wanted to, for the Mexican woesticulation and jabber that manifestly meant dinner Carley

could not understand many Mexican words, and herein she saw another

task This swarthy woman and her sloe-eyed husband favorably impressed

Carley

Next to claim her was Hoyle, the superintendent "Miss Burch," he said,

"in the early days we could run up a log cabin in a jiffy Axes, horses,

strong ars--that was all we needed But this house