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MY DELIVERER.
One day, in the early autumn, as the "Gila" touched at Ehrenberg, on her way down river, Captain Mellon called Jack on to the boat, and, pointing to a young woman, who was about to go ashore, said: "Now, there's a girl I think will do for your wife.

She imagines she has bronchial troubles, and some doctor has ordered her to Tucson.

She comes from up North somewhere.

Her money has given out, and she thinks I am going to leave her here.