m as one of her oldest Californian friends.

At the end of two weeks she again presented him as her affianced
husband--a long engagement of a year being just passed. Mr. Wilson, who
was bored by the mountain life, undertaken to please his rich wife and
richer sister, saw a chance of escape here, and bore willing testimony
to the distant Mr. and Mrs. Mayfield of the excellence of Miss Jessie's
choice. And Yuba Bill was Jeff's best man.

The name of Briggs remained a power in Tuolumne and Calaveras
County. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs never had but one word of disagreement or
discussion. One day, Jeff, looking over some old accounts of his wife's,
found an unreceipted, unvouched for expenditure of twenty thousand
dollars. "What is this for, Jessie?" he asked.

"Oh, it's all right, Jeff!"

But here the now business-like and practical Mr. Briggs, father of a
family, felt called upon to make some general remarks regarding the
necessity of exactitude in accounts, etc.

"But I'd rather not tell you, Jeff."

"But you ought to, Jessie."

"Well then, dear, it was to get those saddle-bags of yours from that
rascal, Dodd," said little Mrs. Briggs meekly.

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