work harder to go to housekeeping right and
well-prepared. Lovely table linen the Har-
lings had given her, and Lena Lingard had
sent her nice things from Lincoln. We hem-
stitched all the tablecloths and pillow-cases,
and some of the sheets. Old Mrs. Shimerda
knit yards and yards of lace for her under-
clothes. Tony told me just how she meant
to have everything in her house. She'd even
bought silver spoons and forks, and kept
them in her trunk. She was always coaxing
brother to go to the post-office. Her young
man did write her real often, from the differ-
ent towns along his run.

"The first thing that troubled her was when
he wrote that his run had been changed, and
they would likely have to live in Denver. 'I'm
a country girl,' she said, 'and I doubt if I'll
be able to manage so well for him in a city.
I was counting on keeping chickens, and
maybe a cow.' She soon cheered up, though.

"At last she got the letter telling her when
to come. She was shaken by it; she broke
the seal and read it in this room. I suspected
then that she'd begun to get faint-hearted,
waiting; though she'd never let me see it.

"Then there was a great time of packing. It

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