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THE LONG WAY ROUND.
Miss Allen turned to yell encouragingly to the Kid, and she saw that he was going on slowly, his head turned to watch her.

She told him to wait where he was, and she would come around the mountain and get him and take him home.

"Do you hear me, baby ?" she asked imploringly after she had told him just what she meant to do.

"Answer me, baby!" "I ain't a baby!" his voice came faintly shrill after a minute.