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Winston of the Prairie

CHAPTER XVI
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"Now, I don't fancy that would do.

It seems to me that this is a case in which a woman to look after him would be necessary." Then, before any of the married men or their wives who had followed them could make an offer, Maud Barrington touched his shoulder.
"He is coming to the Grange," she said.
Dane nodded, signed to Stapleton, then spoke quickly to the men about him and turned to Maud Barrington.
"Ride on at a gallop and get everything ready.

I'll see he comes to no harm," he said.
The girl felt curiously grateful as she rode out with her companion, and Dane, who laid Winston carefully in a wagon, drew two of the other men aside when it rolled away towards the Grange.
"There is something to be looked into.

Did you notice anything unusual about the affair ?" he said.
"Since you asked me, I did," said one of the men.

"I, however, scarcely cared to mention it until I had time for reflection, but while I fancy the regulation guards would have checked the fire on the boundaries without our help, I don't quite see how one started in the hollow inside them." "Exactly," said Dane, very dryly.


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