Before I knew it she was telling me how you pointed me out to her in the smoking-room, and how happy she was that I was goin' her way.

_Her_ way, mind you, Alan, not _mine._ And that's just the way she's kept me goin' up to the minute you hove in sight back there in the cottonwoods!" He lighted his pipe again.

"Alan, how the devil did she know I was hitting the trail for your place ?" "She didn't," replied Alan.
"But she did.

She said that meeting with me in the coach was the happiest moment of her life, because _she_ was on her way up to your range, and I'd be such jolly good company for her.

'Jolly good'-- them were the words she used! When I asked her if you knew she was coming up, she said no, of course not, and that it was going to be a grand surprise.