"No," said the girl, hastily; "call no one yet. I will go to Joe if you will take me. If he is so bad, that will be best. Let the rest sleep." "Can I carry the--the baby?" he asked, doubtfully, and took the child in his arms with a sort of fear lest it should break. He was not the sort of man to be needlessly curious, so he showed no surprise at the rather strange adjunct to her outfit, but carried the little sleeper into the pretty sitting room, where he deposited it on a couch, and the girl arranged it comfortably, that it might at last have undisturbed rest. A man in an adjoining room heard their voices and came to the door. "You can come out for a while, Kelly," said Saunders. "This is Miss Rivers. She will want to see him." A minute later the man in charge had left 'Tana alone beside Harris. All the life in him seemed to gather in his eyes as he looked at her. "You have come! I told him you would--I told Dan," he whispered, excitedly. "Come close; turn up the light; I want to see you plain. Just the same girl; but happier--a heap happier, ain't you?" "A heap happier," she agreed. "And I helped you about it some--about the mine, I mean. I like to think of that, to think I made some return for the harm I done you." "But you never did me any harm, Joe." "Yes, I did--lots. You didn't know--but I did. That's why I wanted you to come so bad. I wanted to square things--before I had to go." "But you are all right, Joe. You are not going to die. You are much better than when I saw you last." "Because I can talk, you think so," he answered. "But I am cold to my waist--I know what that means; and I ain't grumbling. It's all right, now that you have come. Queer that all the time we've known each other, this is the first time I've talked to you! 'Tana, you must let me tell Dan Overton all--" "All! All what?" "Where I saw you first, and--" "No--no, I can't do that," she said, shrinking back. "Joe, I've tried often to think of it--of telling him, but I never could. He will have to trust or distrust me, but I can't tell him."