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"Where shall I ride?" asked Joan

"Anywhere you like up and down the gulch"

"Are you going to have me watched?"

"Not if you say you won't run off"

"You trust e my mind I'll tell you"

"Lord! don't do it, Joan I--I--Well, you've coood

deal to me I don't knohat I'd do if I lost you" As she mounted

the horse Kells added, "Don't stand any raw talk fro in h she

hated this bandit, yet she had softened toward him His eyes lit

when he saw her; his voice ain that he loved her, yet he controlled it Was

he ashamed? Had he seen into the depths of hiined love? There were antagonistic forces at ithin

hireen She

let the eager horse break into a canter and then a gallop; and she

rode up the gulch till the trail started into rough ground Then

turning, she went back, down under the pines and by the cabins, to

where the gulch narrowed its outlet into the wide valley Here she

a pack-train One, a jovial