dly, this time
passing the sheets direct to Carson. Heroically the station agent
stuck to his task, and as he tossed the first of the sheets aside, an
eddying wisp of wind caught it, danced it a moment on the table-top,
then slid it over under the very palm of big Jim Westcott's right hand.
Slowly he picked it up and read it.

"So!" he said, with something strangely like a cry in his deep voice,
"so you've resigned from the _Star_, and you're going to stay in
Haskell?"

The girl looked at him, her lips trembling.

"I never want to be a lady reporter again," she whispered. "Never!"

They were in the open doorway now, and through the lush, warm gloom a
belated light twinkled down in Haskell, slumbering like a bad child in
the gulch below. And as they stood there watching a fair young moon
making its first bow in a purple sky, their lips met in a long tender
kiss; when they lifted their eyes again it was to let them range over
the eternal misty hills with their hearts of gold in which lay the
future--their future.

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