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end of the second day that he wasing did not occur to him until all satisfied with the preliminary work danger of it had passed.
He hid her on his cot, bathed third dream and walked in such a Barly the following morning, not
cald state of excitement that he could without misgivings, he began to her face and wrists with (not even delay his quest for break-plant his charges and arrange his water, and applied a cold compress But it was not until the to the lump on the top of her head. In the dream landscape Sandow, aun was high in the heavens that This hump resembled the half of a the dream tree, stood on sloping he looked upon the completed work hen's e
"He had a vague idea that soŘez ground and was thickly pressed by and felt that it was good
Three fuses of equal length were a woman fainted or lost conscious other trees. And beyond it were
And it was to be ness for any cause that the first dense thickets of leatherwood and to be lighted. arsles and rhododendron. It was hoped that the force unleashed by act of the Good Samaritan was to only from one very especial point these would explode the other sticks myüsten something or other, cor of view that the doubled arm could of dynamite to which no fuses had sets or some such arrangement.
But to lift the girl and carry her} be seen. it was not going to be been connected.
He was ashamed to note that the was to know that she did not wear easy to find the tree.
And he All his operations for the rehand with which he now struck a anything of that kind covery of minute grains of gold match was trembling. He drew a compromised by taking of her ceased abruptly, for he had deter deep breath, lighted the thres fuses shoes- mined to find that tree if it cost as quickly, the one after the other, him the last dolier that he had as might be, and fled from that soned. He could sheays go back place.
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He had also the notion that when a person isn't just right they must be kept warm, so he covered her with two blankets, changed the to panning and begin all over again. Africa, Queensland Ports, and
Arrived at what he conceived, to compress on her head, noted with: He told himself, that he was a fool Staite Jays, Burma, Ceylon
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Tend an idiot, but this did not do be a safe distance he darted behind satisfaction that the lump had al SeathGreece, Levantine Ports, Zurope, Mauritius.
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Johnnie Brinkley, who had taken įrefure in his cabin, at once sallied forth to renew his search for the
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Late in October premature story.. /pat his fagers in his exxx-if he about to leave her and drive into since the passant, helpful youngsthat she wasn't up to them anyway clouds gathered and the first rain had not been ashamed to do so. town for a doctor when her eye man must surely be dying of and that she was going to have
He began to wonder if the fussalids twitched and presently opened curiosity she felt it her duty to dinner with him.
effort Perhaps he not prevent her from helping to had gone out. He was for fooking The girl moaned and once more make the back to see if they
still the eyelids met together over the guessed what was passing in her set the table and to get the dinner. “
Or were they mind, for with a certain young She seemed by some magical in-
sternness he said:
stinet to know just exactly where black? Smoking. He poked his head out fine brown eyes. and looked
-“Nothing doing," and ordered everything was kept in his belter- Standing on one foot, leaning He stood irresolutely. Ought he
bachelar establishment. Ought he not? her to sit down in the one chair skelter syainst the trunk of Sandow, the to leave her? dream tree. But when he had dream tree, in the attitude of a Perhaps if he sponged her face that was comfortable to sit in. And when dinner was over she re- flung open the door of the exbin he paused. His world seemed to young and pretty creature who is gain she would really come to and He folded a steamer rug and placed fused to budge until she had helped
tying a shoe lace, was a girl Asbe mile to answer the question for it under her feet so that the chill with the dishes. 14.500 11th Jan. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
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At the end of three long, hard 7,000-
He noted that she was were getting their throats în order barg, F'dam Antwerp & Hall
"When you have had a cup of days of picking and shoveling be for the rainy 15,000 8th Feb. Marseilles & London.
Her nose- was coffee," he said, "you'll feel lots corvinced himself that Sandow, the 15,000 204 Feb. Marseilles & London
Her brows better." And then, if you like, Fil- dream tree, had not stood guardian. And straight and strong. 6,000 29th Feb. Marseiles, Hare, London, Ham-more the sudden rain had left ben other words, her straight back some, or perhaps beautiful rather
over a rich pocket of guld. But berg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & hind an ethereal mist: And scross hair was bobbed and held in place than pretty
this, magaiscently arched and firm by a brow and of ribbon.
too Bosy with other to the eye like a bridge, was fiang her face and hare-arms were dark-were-level, her eyes wide apart drive you home.”
by tanned.
Her chin, cleft in the middle, and "You're mighty nice."
Tm no such thing, but I've got thoughts to care much, or indeed ja rainbow.
By the time he reached her, run-the lines of her jaw-suggested I It was a complete rainbow.
And Johnnie ing and shouting like a mad man, resolution. Her hair was straight a car and there is some gas in the do anything but laugh at himself
for his folly. had two ends
In the act of tank. Where do you live?”
"A mile and a half down" "the
That night he dreamed once Brinkley stood and wondered which she had finished tying her shoe and and Indian black.
Her thought perhaps, sponging her fare he had pished
more and for the last time about~~
But this time Marseilles. Havre, London, Ham-end was the other end, the end looked up.
They were small, thin, “On the other side of the brook?" the dream tree. burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall which in the legends discovers the was that she had been caught tres- the hair back so that her ears road."
passing and was being ordered off. showed. Marseilles & London.
pot of gold.
It was more emvenient to hope Indeed, she distinguished the words and shapely and set very close to She nodded. And it occurred to there was not any question of a Another hallmark of him that here perhaps was a link pocket of gold under it, but only
with the past.
of a young girl who leaned against that the other end was the nearer "Get out of there!” But the young her head
"Have you always lived there?" it in the attitude of one who end because the nearer end was man who rushed upon her looked courage.
tighten and ties a shoe lace. somewhere on his own land where rather frightened than angry and
At this point in his hovering ob- he asked.
"Not always,” she answered. "I The next day was the first of the the trees and bushes were thickest she was puzzled.
The next moment she was still servations and uncertainty she and where he had spent most of
The young man came to as suddenly as she had was born there, but when my days on which they had agreed to his time hunting for Sandow, the more guzzled.
This time he found seized her hand in his and, turn gone out. Her wits at the moment father and mother died I went drive together into Jim Town and I got to be do their shopping. They ate mag- dream tree.
ing, started to run down the were scattered far and wide. But away for a spell. "The rainbow had vanished and with incredible speed. If it had by an effort of will she picked up cashier in a hashhouse in Merced. hifcently at the Black Cat the point where the ather end had not been for the dragging upon the fragments and very quickly When the bad times came the place thick sirloin steak apiece. French cetually rested could be nothing her hard she could here kept put them together again And went out of business and I'd been fried potatoes, homemade bread Johnnie Brinkley drew a heartfelt homesick all the time and so I came with sweet butter, two or three
home." Neper-pace with him.
cups of hot coffee apiece and bè- more than a wild guess.
The young man caught his toe breath of relet.
"Gat any brothers and sisters tween them a very large and deep theless he walked straight to the tree and realised that he had al-under a root and fell fist on his "What hit me?" she asked "A lup of rotten wood."
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dream tree, together with a lot of top of her head in a gingerly way a living?" the giant's doubled arm.
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Johnnie nodded.
"Miner
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Again with a-lovely-gesture she felt the top of her head.
“So am I," said Johnnie, and it
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I lied to you this morning.”
What about she asked. "About what was under the tree
She wriggled her toes to bring said. her feet into evidence and said: "Nothing but these When I have
to go to town for supplies I walk” I blasted.*
"You mean you used to walk"
said Johumle,We'll arrange to
“Gold?" she asiced.
"Plenty," he said, his eyes shin-
entire lifetime."
In the morning when he had
And he had the pocket of gold, "Pick the apples when they are enrdered with evasion that he was not sure yet. But when in the If, as Johnle had dreamed, the Twigs, dust,--and pebbles and of her arm where the sun had not ripe and pan dirt”
"That's why you're so brown dusk he had returned her to her treasure was deep down among the acorns came showering down. The touched it was magnolia white
"Head awfully sore?" he asked. When I saw you standing against little house in the hillside apple roots of the tree it would be agirl sat up and burst out laughing.
She had been "Not so bad," she said. And her that tree with a fuse smoking just orchard the certainty was SOR waste of labour to go down for it "So that was it!" with pick and shovel. The situa-standing on the young man's blast eyes began to take in the details to the left of you I thought you m tion seemed almost to cry aloud for And what had seemed extraor-of her surroundings. This your were an Indian. Got a car? dynamite. Once the great veget-dinary and maccountable behaviour cabin ?** able had been blasted into the air had been an act of the most chival
He had risked! lands of Sunshine and Romance “Down-Under", you will feel a
it would be child's play to uncover rons heroism towards Sorting, Fishing,
Well the his life to save hers.. you are not inclined new being and even
the gold
The Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty
Johnnie had had no experience danger was now all over. oz to offer you-including 26/- for your pound.
And he took ad-young wriggled his head with dynamite.
why the big blast?" she asked do our shopping on the same days ing "Enough to last a man his vice from his cronies in Jim Town around and was smiling at her.
**To move a tree," he explained and T come and fetch you." These
offered assistance. She smiled at hitta.
"Are you the lucky boy!" she And it was in his mind that he And just then a lump of wood, “I dreamed three times that there Bat this he refused because if they discovered that he was actually go-light fortunately because it was was a big pocket of gold mixed up would do more than that He exclaimed. And her eyes could not ing to blow up a perfectly good rotten, which had been blown with the tap root of that particular would work more steadily than ever have akowa more sincere happiness so that whenever they drove to Jim the treasure trove had been her tree because he had dreamed that higher into the air than anything tree." V p
"And, of course, the girl smiled. Town he would be able to blow her own. there was gold under it they would felse and was consequently the last
to fall, came squarely down upon }“when you dream a thing three to a bang-up-dinner, at the Black I hope so,; szidő Johnnie And attle excited and laugh at him.
He allowed them to believe that the top of her head. The smile times it's plumb foolish not to do Cat"
When I was a small boy," beglitened his voice had a note of Her eyes be something about it..... Well, how! the dynamite was merely intended froze on her face. -to loosen up a piece of very hard came glassy and, like those of a about it? Was the gold there?" aid, "my father sent me with a gruffness "But listen, Molly, # I haven't had a chance to look." message to a man who lived a mile wasn't exactly gold that I found digging and make it easier. He slap-stick comedian in the movies, wished to block out enough dirt to seemed to be looking in different said Johnnie T've been too busy and a half down the road on the under the tree. It was a girl who directions. Then she keeled over playing stretcher bearer, doctor and other side of the brook I have would be worth ten thousand times
forgotten the message and the
her weight in gold to me if I could In addition to the dynamite, of on ther side and loy like
man's name. The man had a wide
make the grace last him through the Winter.
"I bet I weigh a ton.” “You weigh exactly 116 pounds." and they had a little girl just which he was wholesomely afraid, thing. and the fuses to set it off, he'
It was no more than a quarter
"That's a good guess," she said. learning to talk. As a matter of bought a crowbar with which to
She hid behind grave and serious. Johnnie felt drill the holes in which to plant his of a mile to the cabin and there Only a pound off. I weighed at fact she staggered around like charges.
was no other shelter within a mile the grocery store day before yes-dranken sailor.
her mother's dresses and peeked altogether chastly. He had turn- Early the next morning Johnniel and a half. He couldn't very well terday." Brinkley began to drill holes about leave her on the ground while heTell me," said Johnnie, "do you out at me. And now that I linked pale and he was trembling Be tion of love that too badly, but the the base of the tree Much ps went for a doctor and it seemed think it would be a good plan if I of it she had black eyes and black had come through his first declara-
hair"
"Was the name Brown by any exact sind the uncertainty of what tience was needed because he can best to pick her up in his arms went for a real doctor”
→ber zugwer sungut be had left him "I think it would be a better stantly met with obstacles, roots, and carry her to the cabin. and rocks which refused
She was easily lifted and he plan," said the girl, "if you gate chance?""
And now out the hazy past the shattered And this unhappy state drilled. And it was not until the judged that she weighed about a me a drink of water and then found
hundred and sixteen pounds. He out about the gold under the memory that this was indeed the of his being did not escape the fname came to him. He nodded and deep dark acruding of Molly Brown's fine eyes. The corners of had always rather fancied himself tree"
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She looked at him very steadily for quite a long time, her face
as a guesser of weights. But the "That" said Johnnie, “would be amiled. was an awkward package to carry a frightful breach of hospitality" "Of course that's the name, be her mouth twitched, and then her
white and because she had gone completely He fetched her a drink of water said "And now I am beginning to ou limp and to have supported her "Just how do you feel?". properly at the necessary points oczy.” would have required either two noen
remember so
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that's worrying
asked.
"Molly Brow, that's my name,
wished No," she said. "I'm tough." said the gink
"My name," he said, “is Johnnie digger pines And all of a sudden she sat up
breezes stirred and
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"No had pain? You don't feel (Molly 241-2005 for one ran with four army sick? Meta
His intuition had diagnosed her trouble" cot
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vid would require a
the sweet sharp
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neighbours and because we are both faltering kiss becaree shook herself
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