THE PRICE OF HEART'S DESIRE _Concerning Goods, their Value, and the Delivery of the Same_ In the morning the travellers arose with the sun, and after breakfast Tom Osby began methodically to break camp as though preparing for the return up-country.

Neither made reference to any event occurring since their arrival, or which might possibly occur in the near future.

Dan Anderson silently watched his partner as he busied himself gearing up his horses.

All was nearly ready for the start on their journey down the east side of the Sacramentos, when they heard afar a faint and wheezy squeak, the whistle of a railway train climbing up the opposite slope.
"There's the choo-choo cars," said Tom, "comin' a-rarin' and a-pitchin'.

The ingine has to side-step and back-track about eight times to get up the grade.