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"By the way, is there any pay dirt on that ranch?" Miss Georgie kept herself rigidly to the main subject
"No, there isn't Not," he added dryly, "unless it has grown gold in the last few years There are colors, of course All this country practically can show colors, but pay dirt? No!"
"Look out," she advised hiht! Sabe?"
Good Indian's eyes spoke ad stupid, not to have thought of that," he said
"Can't give'heap sht of soe person? Not," she ae person! Would youhere while I go and ru laws Daddy had a good deal of that in his business, being in a ot to know just where we stand, it see to use the laws hiht hio first and put a stop to the hysterical chattering of the sounder by answering the suer, and she wrote it down in a spiteful scribble which left it barely legible
"Betraying professional secrets, but I don't care," she exclai swiftly toward hi one yet? Ready for fry?"'
She threw it down upon the table with a pettish gesture that holly feminine "Sounds perfectly innocent, doesn't it? Too perfectly innocent, if you ask me" She stared out of theabstractedly, her brows pinched together and her lips pursed with a corner between her teeth, er the day before; and when she spoke she see her memory back to him then
"He came up yesterday--with fish for Pete, he SAID, and of course he really did have some--and sent a wire to Shoshone I found it on file when I came back That was perfectly innocent, too It was: "'Expect to land big one to-night Plenty of small fry Shed shortly "Well, I'll go and hunt up that book, and we'll proceed to glean the wisdom of the serpent, so that on't be compelled to re here?"
He assured her that he would not mind in the least, and she ran out bareheaded into the hot sunlight Good Indian leaned forward a little in his chair so that he could watch her running across to the shack where she had a roo her in his thoughts all the tione He felt, as he had done with Peppajee, that he had not known Miss Georgie at all until to-day, and he was a bit startled at what he was finding her to be