of the first
wagon into the home trail and passed over the mesa singing rakishly.

_Oh-h! Biddy McGee has been after me,
Since I've been in the army!_

And Billie turned in the saddle to take a last look over the trail
where the woman of the emerald eyes had passed in the night.

"All my life I have looked, and looked into the beautiful mirages of
the south desert wondering what would come out of it--and _she_ was
the answer," she said, smiling at Kit. "Tomorrow I'll feel as if it
was all a dream, all but the wonderful red gold, and you! Some fine
day we'll take a little _pasear_ down there, I'll follow that dream
trail, and----"

"You will not!" decided the chosen of her heart with rude certainty.
"The dreams of that land of mirages are likely to breed nightmares.
You are on the right side of the border for women to stay. Our old
American eagle is a pretty safe bird to roost with."

"Well," debated the only girl, "if it comes to that, Mexico also has
the eagle, and had it first!"

"Yes, contrary child," he conceded, herding the mules into line, "so
it has,--but the eagle of Mexico is still philandering with a helmeted
serpent. Wise gamblers reserve their bets on that game, we can only
hope that the eagle fights its way free!"

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