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I 'et sohts by this time"

They ca like

old friends The shades of early evening were already falling across

the valley Herndon had returned hoht with him the Rev Howard Wynkoop for supper Miss Spencer

viewed the young man with approval, and i the incidents of her long journey,

together with her early impressions of the Western country Mr

Wynkoop responded with an interest far froe, so unique, Mr Wynkoop," she

explained "The country is like a neorld to me, and the people do

not seem at all like those of the East They lead such a wild,

untra about seems to exhale the spirit of

romance; don't you find it so?"

He suised admiration on

her face "I certainly recall some such earlier conception," he

ad from the environment of an older

civilization perceive merely the picturesque elements; but my later

experiences have been decidedly prosaic"