Next to you I like the life in the plains better than anything.
"I hope you'll come every Sunday till I get out.

Yours respec'fly, "HAROLD EXCELL.
"Jack will give this to you.

Jack is my chum; I'd trust him with my life.

He's all wool." The girl sat a long time with the letter in her hand.

She was but a child, after all, and the lad's words alarmed and burdened her, for the meaning of the letter was plain.