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294 JOSE. just as it is; I realize our immediate advantages and would gladly agree if I were still situated as formerly. Before you conclude to take a definite course let the matter rest a day or two. Possibly I shall find a way, regardless of the fact that many a hope upon which I implicitly relied has been rudely shattered.” He looked out upon the street again, while Bau- mann, with a thoughtful shake of the head, resumed his walk. : The expedition had wrought many a sudden change in Green’s affairs. The news of the total annihilation of the train had reached St. Louis, even before our friends had reached the border, and Green, on crossing the threshold of the house, whence he had taken his departure full of buoyant hopes—a messenger of evil—found his partners awaiting him with looks of anxious suspense and the declaration that they were totally ruined. The loss was too damaging than that the resources of the house could recover it, and Green barely suc- ceeded in obtaining the consent of his despondent partners to postpone the announcement of their in- solvency until an attempt was made to induce their creditors in the East to share part of the loss. While Bob, half way civilized in appearance, was treading the familiar path which led to the farm on the Meramec, agreeable to a promise that he would meet his friends at the Planters House on a certain oH the two young couples were on their return ast. It was agreed that Mary should pass her mourning period with relatives in Cambridge, where Pepita, in order to be near Mary, was to enter a boarding school. Such preparations as were deemed imperative, therefore, were quickly made, and while Baumann, whose only ambition it was to obtain a suitable berth in the United States, was reviving his friendly relations with his former acquaintances, having called on the agents of his late firm for a reply to his letter announcing his trip across the plains, EORMIE NCO KS (E(0)