The Prairie Detective — page 147: what you’re looking at

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138 THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. . any amount of exposure in such a cause, and would listen to no dissuasions. And so, that point settled, the party rolled up on the ground to sleep until morning. Esther to con- cratulate herself upon the good fortune which had led her to such friends as these; Ryan to cogitate with some bitterness upon the supposed desertion of Robinson, and Dan to reflect that Esther was simply the perfection of womanhood. “By Jove,’’ he asked himself, half drowsily, ‘‘I wonder if I am falling in love with her? Well,” (after a pause) “if I am, I have the satisfaction of knowing that if I had searched the whole world over, I couldn’t have found a better object for my affections. ”’ And so the three friends dozed caacatolie off, while Vixen kept guard. ~comicbooks.com |