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Long into the night Joan lay awake, and at ti the

silence, there afted to her on a breeze the low, strange old-ca, and akened by the unloading of

lu planks from the sawmill Already a

skeleton framework for Kells's cabin had been erected Ji with the others, and they were sacrificing thoroughness to

haste Joan had to cook her own breakfast, which task elcoa co some rocks where she would be inconspicuous, she looked on at

the building of Kells's cabin It see, to watch Jireat

worker Would this experience on the border make a man of hi up like a mushroom, that bandit rendezvous

was the one Kells worked himself, and appeared no mean hand By

noon the roof of clapboards was on, and the siding of the same

material had been started Evidently there was not to a be a

fireplace inside

Then a teaon-load of purchases Kells had

ordered Kells helped unload this and evidently was in search of

articles Presently he found them, and then approached Joan, to

deposit before her an assort