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The girl nodded wearily

"Post-trader at Fort Bethune?"

Again the rumpled head silently acquiesced

"What is your naly, "but I reckon if

you have any further occasion for addressing htly, his reckless humor instantly restored by her

perverse ood naturedly, "but you are

certainly laying it on thick, young lady! However, I believe we ood friends if we ever have sufficient luck to get out from

this hole alive Darn if I don't sort of cotton to you, little

girl--you've got sory eyes rested scornfully upon his

face, her lips parted as though tre with a sharp retort Then

she deliberately turned her back upon hi a word

For what may have been the first and only occasion in Mr Hampton's

audacious career, he realized his utter helplessness This irl, this little nameless waif of the frontier,

condemned him so completely, and without waste of words, as to leave

hireatly cared; oh, no! still, it was an

entirely new experience; the arroent deeper than he would have

willingly ad