He was a friend you could say your prayers with, or eat your meals with, or ride a hundred miles with, and just take it as a matter of course; for he was part of what you were part of, all this out here--don't you understand ?" "I am trying hard to do so," was the reply in a hushed voice.

Here was a world, here were people of whom Mona Crozier had never dreamed.

They were so much of an antique time--far behind the time that her old land represented; not a new world, but the oldest world of all.

She began to understand the girl also, and her face took on a comprehending look, as with eyes like bronze suns Kitty continued: "So, though it was wrong--wicked--in one way, I read the letter, to do some good by it, if it could be done.

If I hadn't read it you wouldn't be here.