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"Well!" he ventured at last, "what is your proposition?" The question

was quietly asked, but a slight tre

"That, for the present at least, you confide this girl into the care of

some worthy woman"

"Have you any such in mind?"

"I have already discussed the matter briefly with Mrs Herndon, wife of

the superintendent of the Golden Rule mines She is a refined

Christian lady, beyond doubt the e in this camp There is very little in such a place as this to

interest a wohted to have such an opportunity for doing good She has no

children of her own"

Haar butt out of the"I'll talk it

over to-ruffly "It

ood deal more to e there is considerable hard sense in what you

have just said, and I 'll talk it over with the girl"