"The Mormon beast! He knows well that I did not steal his mule."

"No' naughty boy," tapping him playfully with her fan, "'Twas something
else you stole from Master Crow the woman he wanted. Often have I
noticed on the streets how all women, every one, turn to look after
you."

"I cared not for her." He shook his tall and beautiful head, impatient
of the silky black lock which fell across his forehead.

"Perhaps then 'tis your magnificent carriage they would admire," laughed
the girl, teasingly.

Dick swept her close to his heart. "My golden-throated dove, I cannot
join in your sweet laughter, for I have a boding heart, this day. I have
enemies. They will use my past record. The courts are new, and judgments
swift and cold. If they should send me again to the penitentiary I - "

"Dearest I should know you to be innocent, and I should wait for you."

He kissed her tenderly on cheeks, and eyes, and mouth. He took her hands
from his shoulders, slipping off the little silken mitts and putting
them in an inner pocket, and kissed the soft, pink palms.

"Ah, Lady-Bird, if I should not return you'll remember me?"

"Always."

"My own pure love! No breath of shame shall ever sully your fair name