Well, then, will you let me aid you--say till better times ?" "Yes, I will," he replied, with his face lighting up.

"I see what it means to you, and you know what it means to me.

Thank you! And if better times ever come, I'll be only too happy to work for you." "Better times will come.

I trust God and have faith in man.

Good day, Carson." The lane opened out upon the sage-inclosed alfalfa fields, and the last habitation, at the end of that lane of hovels, was the meanest.
Formerly it had been a shed; now it was a home.