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Night settled down black A pale, narrow cloud, marked by a train of

stars, extended across the dense blue sky The wind moaned in the

cedars and roared in the replenished camp-fire Sparks fleay

into the shadows And on the puffs of sent odor of burning cedar Coyotes barked off

under the brush, and froe drifted the dis to Joan She had crossed the plains in a

wagon-train, that -drawn yell of

hostile Indians She had prospected and hunted in the mountains with

her uncle, weeks at a tiht had the

wildness, the loneliness, been so vivid to her

Roberts was on his knees, scouring his oven et sand His big,

shaggy head nodded in the firelight He see and thick

and slow There was a burden upon hiainst stones and conversed low Kells stood up

in the light of the blaze He had a pipe at which he took long pulls

and then sent up clouds of s in his face, at that distance; but it took no

second look to see here was a man remarkably out of the ordinary