settle here I'm sure I can be of service to you and you to me.
Don't think anything more about it; I sha'n't ever say anything
one way or another. You have your own battle to fight, and I wish
you luck. You'll get all the aid from me I can honestly give you.
Just forget that you told me, and when you get your matrimonial
affairs straightened out bring your wife out to see us."

With these things completed Cowperwood took the train back to
Philadelphia.

"Aileen," he said, when these two met again--she had come to the
train to meet him--"I think the West is the answer for us. I went
up to Fargo and looked around up there, but I don't believe we
want to go that far. There's nothing but prairie-grass and Indians
out in that country. How'd you like to live in a board shanty,
Aileen," he asked, banteringly, "with nothing but fried rattlesnakes
and prairie-dogs for breakfast? Do you think you could stand that?"

"Yes," she replied, gaily, hugging his arm, for they had entered
a closed carriage; "I could stand it if you could. I'd go anywhere
with you, Frank. I'd get me a nice Indian dress with leather and
beads all over it and a feather hat like they wear, and--"

"There you go! Certainly! Pretty clothes first of all in a miner's
shack. That's the way."

"You wouldn't love me long if I didn't put pretty clothes first,"
she replied, spiritedly. "Oh, I'm so glad to get you back!"

"The trouble is," he went on, "that that country up there isn't