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"Kid," he ventured at last, turning over a broken fragers, but without lifting his eyes, "you were

talking while we came up the trail about hoe 'd do this and that

after a while You don't suppose I ' around on to h such unexpected expressions

startled her froht that was the

way you planned it yesterday," she exclaimed, doubtfully

"Oh, yesterday! Well, you see, yesterday I was sort of drea;

to-day I am wide awake, and I 've about decided, Kid, that for your own

good, and leam of fierce resentlow of a passion which had never known control "Oh, you

have, have you, Mister Bob Haether decide? I don't think I' you for ht

without you--I did before Just what happened to give you such a

change of heart?"

"Ia laziness he was

very far froo traipsing around the country withsharks, and that class of cattle"

"Oh, did you? What else?"