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Ernest looked at Charley--"I've got to talk about her, Charley, to make them understand"

Charley moistened her lips, but nodded and Dick put his hand over his eyes

"She was like Charley too in that she was the kind of a girl that decent , unreasoning loves, you understand But with the kind of a deep-seated adoration for beauty and goodness and brain that gets a ot to caring for Charley and that's the way, in embryo, we all loved Felicia

"In thelike the very devil to get the plant up and the alfalfa in I wrote home of that How difficult the work here in the desert was is beyond description And, what er down, he got to working against tiave an atmosphere of desperate hurry and worry to the ca point At intervals, too, he lost that famous teer filled his pipe with fingers that tre out the door noith eyes that saw nothing

"Dick varied the ly whelp when he's drunk Once he knocked Charley down and Felicia saw it and Roger and he htened it out, and we let hiot drunk, Felicia, in her fright, ran away into the desert and was killed by a rattler Charley and Roger found her It nearly killed us all But it cured Dick of drinking--that's one reason why I' you Don't cry, Mütterchen"

"But you have Charley, Ernie! You have Charley!" sobbed his er has Charley None of us deserved her, but Roger is nearer fit than the rest"

"Don't, Ernest!" pleaded Charley

"Iat Well, Papa, in the meantime, there was no er's plant didn't work out as we'd planned I wrote ho a door You can picture Roger trying to build a new engine out of wire and a string he had traes to find and steal The alfalfa was dying for lack of water and there was no adequate pu system even if we'd had adequate water