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"She'll be here to-day," asserted his wife "She said she would

Besides, I think that's her riding a little one side the road now Not

that I knoho all is with her One young man--two Well"--with

maternal pride--"Molly ain't never lacked for beaus!

"But look at the wagons co, it certainly seeon-trains, stretching

fro, the spot where that very year

the new narants as the place

of the jump-off It was now an hour by sun, as these Western people

would have said, and the low-lying valley mists had not yet fully risen,

so that the atreat picture, a stirring panora, stately, the ox tea the fleet of white canvas sails The

teams did not hasten, did not abate their speed, but ave theirresistibly

epochal in look

The train, foreshortened to the watchers at the rendezvous, had a

well-spaced forons, thirty, forty, forty-seven--as

Jesse Wingate mentally counted them There were outriders; there were

clu the flanks walked tall