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"Please don't say 'I reckon,' either; it has such a vulgar sound What

is his given na of Mr Wynkoop"

"Howard; I saritten in some books he loaned me But the people

here never address hiht I should like to knohat it was"

There was a considerable pause; then the speaker asked, calmly, "Is he

married?"

"Mr Wynkoop? Why, of course not; he does n't care for women in that

way at all"

Miss Spencer bound her hair carefully with a bright ribbon "Maybe he

h, some time All men do"

She sat down in the low rocker, her feet comfortably crossed "Do you

know, Naida dear, it is simply wonderful to h, and it was so beautifully romantic--everybody

killed except you and that man, and then he saved your life It's such

a pity he was so miserable a creature"

"He was n't!" Naida exclainant passion "He was

perfectly splendid"

"Aunt Lydia did n't think so She wrote he was a coamble; nearly everybody does out here And soht, but he wasn't truly bad"