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"Savvied! What do you aloot never saw his real danger But I felt it Soht inside s will turn up at Uncle Al's, sure as I'm born," said Helen

"Let him turn," replied Bo, conteain about him I'll bet they're all s's boots for a lot"

After that Bo talked of her uncle and his fatal illness, and froly at the other side of the world, and then she broke down and cried, after which she fell asleep on Helen's shoulder

But Helen could not have fallen asleep if she had wanted to

She had always, since she could re, active life; and for want of a better idea she had chosen to drearimly that, if these first few hours of her advent in the West were forecasts of the future, she was destined to have her longings e rolled slower and slower, until it came to a halt Then the horses heaved, the harnesses clinked, the men whispered Otherwise there was an intense quiet She looked out, expecting to find it pitch-dark It was black, yet a transparent blackness To her surprise she could see a long way A shooting-star electrified her The ht sounds about the stage she heard nothing Presently the driver clucked to his horses, and travel was resue rolled on rapidly, evidently downhill, swaying fro as if about to fall to pieces Then it slowed on a level, and again it halted for a few an a laborsoined miles had been covered The desert appeared to heave into billows, growing rougher, and dark, round bushes direw uneven and rocky, and when the stage began another descent its violent rocking jolted Bo out of her sleep and in fact almost out of Helen's ar your heart's desire, but I can't tell you where you are," replied Helen

Bo awakened thoroughly, which fact was noonder, considering the jostling of the old stage

"Hold on to me, Nell! Is it a runaway?"