It touched the lonely figure in the chair with an infinite compassion, and seemed to baptize with a shining flood the lowly head of the woman whose hair, as in the sweet old story, bathed the feet of him she loved.

It even lent a kindly poetry to the rugged outline of Yuba Bill, half-reclining on his elbow between them and his passengers, with savagely patient eyes keeping watch and ward.

And then I fell asleep and only woke at broad day, with Yuba Bill standing over me, and "All aboard" ringing in my ears.
Coffee was waiting for us on the table, but Miggles was gone.

We wandered about the house and lingered long after the horses were harnessed, but she did not return.

It was evident that she wished to avoid a formal leave-taking, and had so left us to depart as we had come.