A Prairie Infanta

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Brodhead Eva Wilder. A Prairie Infanta

CHAPTER ONE. THE POWER OF CONSOLATION

CHAPTER TWO. A SACRED CHARGE

CHAPTER THREEA. TRUE BENEFACTRESS

CHAPTER FOUR. WISE IMPULSES

CHAPTER FIVE. DESTINY PRESSES

CHAPTER SIX. BEWILDERING SATISFACTION

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Jane helplessly regarded the child's despair, while Señora Vigil maintained an attitude curiously significant of deep compassion and a profound intention of neutrality. With the sound of Lola's distraught refusals in her ear, Jane felt upon her merely the instinct of flight. She rallied her powers of speech and set her hand on the gate, saying simply, "I'm going. She better stay here."But at this the señora's face, which had exhibited a kind of woful pleasure in the excitement of the occasion, took on an anxious frown."And the board-money?" she exclaimed, with instant eagerness.

Jane helplessly regarded the child's despair, while Señora Vigil maintained an attitude curiously significant of deep compassion and a profound intention of neutrality. With the sound of Lola's distraught refusals in her ear, Jane felt upon her merely the instinct of flight. She rallied her powers of speech and set her hand on the gate, saying simply, "I'm going. She better stay here."

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As she listened to the crashing of the swollen tide, another noise seemed to mingle with the sound of the mountain waters – a sound of bellowing and trampling, as of a stampeded herd. A sudden horror of great rolling eyes and rending horns and crazy hoofs hurtled through the girl's dizzy brain. Her hands loosened. She began to slip down.

The rain had slackened when Bev Gribble, looking from his herder's hut up on the mesa, saw that his "bunch" of cattle had disappeared. Certain tracks on the left of the upland pasture exhibited traces of a hasty departure. That there had been a cloudburst over toward the Peaks he was as yet ignorant; nor did he discover this until he had caught his cow-pony and descended into the ravine.

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