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The girl glanced away to the south "We'll have to hurry if we reach can of surrender to her leadership

They overtook a long train of burros bearing a o of odds and ends of s, iron-rods, bundles of bolts, luroceries

"This is all father's--all for the newat the Mexicans in charge of the donkeys "Hello, Clint!" she called, cheerily, to anotheryoung felloho saluted her joyfully, his eyes agloith adoration

"Every e of disapproval "Think what sheforward those donkeys!" And a knowledge of her danger--he put it that way--began to oppress hih miners"

She, it seeay nod and a bright word for every one she rimy and sullen Serviss derived no cohtened for an instant in the light of her adorable sht of the mill on a bare peak The white clouds which had been silently gathering round the great dorew chill as Novean to roar in the firs with a stern irl, without once stopping her horse, unrolled her raincoat and put it on, calling back at her cavalier as she did so with a fine, challenging, gleeful shout

They were very high now Perennial ice lay in the gullies and on the north side of the cliffs, and the air was light and keen Suddenly the wind died away A gray hush careen and became lead-color streaked hite foam One by one the mountains were blotted out by the stor; but the girl pushed fearlessly forward, singing like a robin, while the rain slashed over her, and the thunder boonificent alaru the veil of water like a flute note "Don't you?"

Serviss was not without iination, and the contrast of this jocund, fearless, free young ht before moved him to wonder "Here she is herself--nature's own child," he thought "Last night she was a 'subject'--a plaything of the preacher's Strange the er"