I'm tired of school; I'm going to Kansas, and I'm going to be a great cattle king in a few years, Dot, and then I'll come back and get you, and we'll go live on the banks of a big river, and we'll have plenty of horses, and go riding and hunting antelope every day.

How will you like that ?" Her unresponsiveness hurt him, and he said: "You don't seem to care whether I go or not." She turned and looked at him vacantly, still smiling, and he saw that she had not heard a single word of his passionate speech.

He sprang up, hot with anger and pain.
"If you don't care to listen to me you needn't," he said, speaking through his clinched teeth.
She smiled, showing her little white teeth prettily.

"Now, don't get mad, Harry; I was thinking of something else.

Please tell me again." "I won't.