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He picked up a floating ribbon-end which was a part of Evadna's belt, and ran it caressingly through his fingers in a hich set Miss Georgie's teeth together "I' Evadna's face with pure love hunger, "they aren't going to , if they haven't any water" He rolled the ribbon up tightly, and then tossed it lightly toward her face "ARE they, Goldilocks?"

"Are they what? I've told you a dozen ti me that I had a doll once that I named Goldilocks, and I melted her nose off--she ax--and you always reo every day and take her out of the bureau-drawer and look at her, and then cry ie? There's rooot? Aunt Phoebe, I don't believe it has raised a bit lately I've been watching that black rock with the crack in it" Evadna moved nearer to Good Indian, and pulled her skirts close upon the other side, thereby ie's accoie, looking at her watch "By the way, chicken, did you have to walk all the way ho at Good Indian, as if a secret had been betrayed "No," she said, "I didn't I just got to the top of the grade when a squaw ca squaw, all red and purple and yellow She fully curious about you, Grant She wanted to knohere you were and what you were doing I hope you aren't a flirtatious young ht"

She had to explain to her Aunt Phoebe and Grant just how she cahed at the squaw's vivid costume, and declared she would have one like it, because Grant h, to waste upon such trivialitieswo an urgent invitation to stay to supper, declared that she nificant look without being detected in the act by Evadna But Good Indian, for the ti wholly absorbed by the smiles of his lady, had no eyes for her, and see to her visit So that Miss Georgie, feer-tips and oversensitive perhaps where those tere concerned, suddenly abandoned her real object in going to the ranch, and rode aithout saying a word of what she had come to say