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As soon as he walked the streetsre people who were quick to recognise him,Town being the enforced home of many of hisand not a few of his former customers. The Ikey of old would have long since| sensed the approach. 'A most extraordinary gift what will make|W«ry ch» sir!'him? That thing? A Chinee . He finally agreed to sell the title to the ten acresof light timber and scrub for forty pounds, a sum somewhatin advance of the current value of the land.

Staring was all she had to do. He told himself,though to no avail, that he was being foolishly generouswith a gesture which could show him no future profit as hewould not, in the further course of this life, see Mary again. y who had married the Pumphrey girl had drowned in the Republican River in the fall of the year, with the girl only just pregnant. When the weather was fair he would go sit in the shade the sign cast and think of ways to improve it, in the two or three years since