They had ridden fourdays out of the very limits of the world into this desolate place, shortof water, with nothing but a strip of dried meat under their saddles, overrocks and mountains, where surely none but these fugitives had ever beenbefore--for _that_!And all this was for a girl, a mere wilful child! And the man had wholecityfuls of people to do his basest bidding--girls, women! Why in the nameof passionate folly _this_ one in particular? asked the little man,and scowled at the world, and licked... read more
