With father's teams working for you, I'll feel as if we had a part in the race." After a pause she proceeded, "The contractor's outfit went up and you were just starting the dam and excavation about the time I went East.

Father mentioned in a letter to me that he had dropped in at your camp once or twice when at Bartolo." "Yes, I showed him what we were doing.

We've had other visitors occasionally.

Miss Gardner and Miss Martin--at Sarita Creek, you remember--come at times.

Miss Martin is a niece of Mr.McDonnell, of Kennard." "So Mrs.McDonnell told me.