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While the train was inscenery, and resting her fro Bo well in hand at stations, she lapsed again into dreaullies and the dies of New Mexico--a golden blaze of glory, as new to her as the strange fancies born in her, thrilling and fleeting by Bo's raptures were not silent, and the instant the sun sank and the color faded she just as rapturously ie basket of food they had brought fro each other, at the end of the coach, and piled there, with the basket on top, was luggage that constituted all the girls owned in the world Indeed, it was very much more than they had ever owned before, because their mother, in her care for them and desire to have them look well in the eyes of this rich uncle, had spent ive theether, with the heavy basket on their knees, and ate while they gazed out at the cool, dark ridges The train clattered slowly on, apparently over a road that was all curves And it was supper-time for everybody in that crowded coach If Helen had not been so absorbed by the great, wild ers As it was she saw thehtful at the men and women and a few children in the car, allout there to the New West to find homes It was splendid and beautiful, this fact, yet it inspired a brief and inexplicable sadness Fro, with its long bare reaches between, seemed so lonely, so wild, so unlivable How endless the distance! For hours and miles upon , the length and breadth of this beautiful land And Helen, who loved brooks and running streams, saater at all

Then darkness settled down over the slow-ht wind blew in at the hite stars began to blink out of the blue The sisters, with hands clasped and heads nestled together, went to sleep under a heavy cloak

Early the nextinto their apparently bottoas

"Look! Look!" cried Bo, in thrilling voice "Cowboys! Oh, Nell, look!"