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lassies'!" mimicking Andrew's blowpipe.
"They know how to take care of themselves
in a pinch--and of somebody else,
too! ... And--and, see here, what
I've brought you, honey, rolled in the
blanket for him!"

"Cake---choc'late cake! C-coffee!"
Una gasped feebly, confronted by the
ghost of her everyday life.

She grasped the reality, though, of that
normal life, somewhere waiting for her,
with the first bite into the brown-eyed cake,
while her sweater was restored to her thinly
clad shoulders as the mountain woman
spread her blanket over the injured man
and tucked it under him for a pillow.

"You--you're a 'trump,' little niece--letting
me have it for-r so long," he said
wistfully.

And Una shyly forbore to answer.

Occasionally it is easier to land gracefully
after a long jump than a short one in
the case of an awkward gulf to be crossed!
She saw that her friend Pemrose, no relation
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