`` When I left you , Phil , I felt much more anxious than I wanted to let you see . I had no idea where to go . I knew there were no houses along our trail and I might have to go clean back to the tepees -- fifteen miles bareback . I did n't dare try any other trail , for I knew nothing of them and was n't sure that there were even tepees on them . But when I had gone about six miles I saw a welcome sight -- nothing less than a spiral of blue , homely-looking smoke curling up from the prairie far off to my right . I decided to turn off and investigate . I rode two miles and finally I came to a little log shack . There was a bee-yew-tiful big horse in a corral close by . My heart jumped with joy . But suppose the inmates of the shack were half-breeds ! You ca n't realize how relieved I felt when the door opened and two white men came out . In a few minutes everything was explained . They knew who I was and what I wanted , and I knew that they were Mr. Lonsdale and Mr. Hopkins , owners of a big ranch over by Deer Run . They were ` shacking out ' to put up some hay and Mrs. Hopkins was keeping house for them . She wanted me to stop and have a cup of tea right off , but I thought of you , Phil , and declined . As soon as they heard of our predicament those lovely men got their two biggest horses and came right with me . '' It was not long before our democrat was on solid ground once more , and then our rescuers insisted that we go back to the shack with them for the night . Accordingly we drove back to the shack , attended by our two gallant deliverers on white horses . Mrs. Hopkins was waiting for us , a trim , dark-haired little lady in a very pretty gown , which she had donned in our honour . Kate and I felt like perfect tramps beside her in our muddy old raiment , with our hair dressed by dead reckoning -- for we had not included a mirror in our baggage .
There was a mirror in the shack , however -- small but good -- and we quickly made ourselves tidy at least , and Kate even went to the length of curling her bangs -- bangs were in style then and Kate had long , thick ones -- using the stem of a broken pipe of Mr. Hopkins 's XXXXX a curler .
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