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For a while the three sat in silence; and then Jonas Priet ho I think you'd rather tell me before we see Mrs P"

"It was Sairl "I couldn'tto be a tramp; but I had no idea a tramp's existence was so adventurous You won't make me marry him, Daddy, will you? I wouldn't be happy, Daddy"

"I should say not, Gail; you can be an old maid all your life if you want to"

"But I don't want to--I only want to choose ail

Mrs Priail in the ill-fittingshe raised her hands in holy horror; but she couldn't see Bridge at all, until Burton found an opportunity to draw her to one side and whisper soraciousness personified to the dusky Bridge, insisting that he spend a fortnight with them to recuperate

Between thee out as he had not been dressed in years, and with the feel of fresh linen and pressed clothing, even if ill fitting, a sensation of coht possible from such a source an hour before

He smiled ruefully as Burton looked him over "I venture to say," he drawled, "that there are other things in the world besides the open road"

Burton smiled

It was uests arose fro ith them, and everyone present had been sworn to secrecy about her share in the tragedy of the previous night On the morrow she would return to Payson and no one there the wiser; but first she had Burton send to the jail for Giova, as being held as a witness, and Giova proe stole a few ail, or, to be eneraled the others of the coe out upon the veranda

"Tell irl, "why you were so kind to ht me a worthless little scamp of a boy who had robbed soo," said Bridge "I used to wonder myself why I should feel toward a boy as I felt toward you,--it was inexplicable,--and then when I knew that you were a girl, I understood, for I knew that I loved you and had loved you from the moment that we met there in the dark and the rain beside the Road to Anywhere"