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Following that then

Joan, there were uneventful days in which she rode the gulch trails

and grew able to stand the jests and glances of the bandit's gang

She thought she saw and heard everything, yet insulated her true

self in a callous and unreceptive aloofness from all that affronted

her

The days were uneventful because, while always looking for Jim

Cleve, she never once saw him Several times she heard his name

mentioned He was here and there--at Beard's off in the mountains

But he did not coathered, had

made Kells anxious He did not want to lose Cleve Joan peered froreeary of

the loud talk and laughter, the ga

When there see, then Joan went

to bed

On these occasions Joan learned that Kells was passionately keen to

gaah, a poor loser Moreover, when he lost he drank