up and answered her question. Now I see what a duffer I
was--Madge told me afterwards that she asked only because she
was so frightened and confused that she felt she must stop my
speaking for a moment.

I did my best till I heard the whistle the locomotive gives as it
runs into yard limits, and then rose. "Good-by, Miss Cullen," I
said, properly enough, though no death-bed farewell was ever more
gloomily spoken; and she responded, "Good-by, Mr. Gordon," with
equal propriety.

I held her hand, hating to let her go, and the first thing I
knew, I blurted out, "I wish I had the brass of Lord Ralles!"

"I don't," she laughed, "because, if you had, I shouldn't be
willing to let you--"

And what she was going to say, and why she didn't say it, is
the concern of no one but Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gordon.

THE END

Transcriber's Note:

The discrepancies of four or seven "years of Western life" on
Pages 7, 15 and 26 have been retained as in the original.

The oe ligature in the Latin-1 and text versions of this book
have been changed to "oe".

Page 49. Changed "good-bye" to "good-by" twice. (... the rest
of the party were there, and I bade good-by to the captain and
Albert.); ("I hope it isn't good-by, but only au revoir," ...)

Page 59. Changed "coconino" to "Coconino". (... and, as all the
rest of the ride was through Coconino forest, ...)

Page 104. Corrected American Morse Code (a.k.a. Railroad Morse
Code) to accurately reflect transmitted message.

Page 105. Changed "rail road" to "railroad". ("Sheriff yavapai
county ash forks arizona be at railroad station ...")

Page 140. Changed "doorway" to "door-way". (... pulled through
the door-way of my car by the cowboys ...)

Page 145. Changed "her" to "Her". (... Her Majesty's ...)

Page 181. Changed "Discoving" to "Discovering". (Discovering
this, Camp whipped out his gun, and told me to let them out.)

Page 187. Changed "sheriff" to "Sheriff". (... I could have
given Sheriff Gunton points on cursing.)

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