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"I fairly shake frorily, "and am

terribly tired and sore, but I reckon I canmore said between them Like two autorass, the heat waves rising and falling

as they stuhly

that hard cli abstinence froth, yet to remain

where they were meant certain death; all hope found its centre amid

those distant beckoning trees Mechanically the girl gathered back her

straying tresses, and tied the torn from her frayed skirt

Hampton noted silently how heavy and sunken her eyes were; he felt a

dull pity, yet could not sufficiently arouse hiy

of exhaustion to speak His body see was left hi purpose, the

iron will to press on across that desolate plain, which already reeled

and writhed before his aching eyes