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"Cesca!" cried Rhoda, "do keep the burro out of the meat!" The burro that Kut-le recently had acquired was sniffing at the ry!"

"I ain to cook h now, and Cesca is so dirty!"

Kut-le entered the camp in time to hear Rhoda's resolution

"Will you let me eat with you?" he asked courteously "I don't enjoy dirt,man The calm effrontery of him, the cleverness of him, to ask a favor of her! She turned froes She did not realize how hness of the caes were, how free, how cal Kut-le in Coventry seemed foolish to her Of what avail was her silence, except to increase her own loneliness? Suddenly she sood one Perhaps she could play it as well as the Indian

"If you wish, you nored the utter joy and astonish the rabbit that Molly had dressed She tossed the tortillas as Molly had taught her and baked them over the coals She set forth the cans and baskets that formed the camp dinner-set and served the primitive meal Kut-le watched the preparations silently When the rabbit was cooked the two sat down on either side of the flat rock that served as a table while the other three squatted about Cesca's stew-pot near the fire

It was the first time that Rhoda and Kut-le had eaten tête-à-tête Hitherto Rhoda had taken her food off to a secluded corner and eaten it alone There was an intiether at the lad you did this for me, Rhoda?" asked Kut-le

"I didn't do it for you!" returned Rhoda "I did it forin her tone narrowed the Indian's eyes

"Why should you speak as a queen to a poor devil of a subject? By what particular mark of superiority are you exempt from work? For a tier have that I should say thatin sloth while they are made for you! Do you never have any sense of sha?"