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Instinct told the white girl, gave her the sa creatures But what could she do? This was an

eleuessed

rather than reasoned what it would mean when yonder line caon train

The ht She

would at least save them She would mount one and ride with the alarm

for the cae, knew that shehands to loose one end of the hobble straps,

but no ot its feet it whirled and ay

No chance to hold one of them now, and if she hadBut she saw theo toward the stream,

toward the camp She must run that way herself

It was so far! There was a faint s in the air Was it too late?

A swift, absurd, wholly useless

day Yes, it would be no more than a prayer, but she would send it out

blindly into the air Some instinct--yes, quite likely

Molly ran to her abandoned wagonette, pushed in under the white tilt

where her pallet bed lay rolled, her little personal plunder stored

about Fu, she found her sulphur nal fire It was, at least, all that she could do It , she looked about her, tore her hands breaking off little

faggots of tall dry weed stements of a plum thicket in the nearest shallow coulee She ran to