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"I go Sun go 'way, mebbyso I come Mebbyso yo' heart bad Me ketchum much dolla yo', me no tellum, mebbyso No ketchum, hs" Turning, she waddled out, jabbing viciously at the young squaith her elbow as she passed, and spitting out soie could not tell which

The young squaw lingered, still gazing shyly at Miss Georgie

"You no be 'fraid," she repeated softly "I friend I take care No trouble come Good Injun I no let coone, as silently as ie stood by the ith her fingernailslittle red half-moons in her palht on the narrow trail to their ca after, until only a black head could be seen bobbing over the brow of the hill When even that was gone, she turned fro htly over her face She was trying to think, but instead she found herself listening intently to the monotonous "Ah-h-CHUCK! ah-h-CHUCK!" of the stea of an order froer train two stations to the west

When the train was cleared and the wires idle, she went suddenly to the table, laid her fingers purposefully upon the key, and called up her chief It was another two hours' leave of absence she asked for "on urgent business" She got it, seasoned with a sarcastic reminder that her business was supposed to be with the railroad company, and that she would do well to cultivate exactness of expression and a taste for her duties in the office

She was putting on her hat even while she listened to theno retort whatever She almost ran to the store, and she did not ask Pete for a saddle-horse; she just threw her office key at hi to take his bay, and she was at the stable before he closed the mouth he had opened in amazement at her ind departure