Part 6 (1/2)
”I wasn't,” she said, rather sharply ”Anyhow, if I was, you oughtn't to have noticed”
”Perhaps not Jake told one wrong?”
”It's all gone wrong,” she answered drearily ”I oughtn't to have co----”
”The supper was quite good,” Jiood! Well, I suppose that's all you can say for it honestly
If you liked it, it's curious you didn't eat very much Then, you see, I can cook, and I wanted tothe job”
”nobody could cook at a fire like that Besides, folks are not fastidious in ca rock all day, you can eat whatever you get”
”Your touch is certainly not light; I'd sooner you were fastidious,”
Carrie rejoined
”Looks as if I'd taken the wrong line,” Jiently ”I hate to see you disturbed”
”Do you hate it very much?”
”Yes,” said Jilance and turned her head The firelight touched his face and she noted his grave sympathy
”Oh!” she said, ”I'h I knew you didn't want s hard,” Jim replied, with some embarrassment
”I do find them hard; that's the trouble, because they're really not hard The fault's rit,” Jim declared ”I've knownto be nice and I don't like that I didn't want you to come just now, but since you have come, sit down and s”
”But you have helped----”
Carrie looked up quickly ”Oh, you are dull! You don't see I want to confess It's sometimes a comfort to in to iine you're perhaps not quite so bad”
”I don't know if it's worth while to bother about such things,” Jim remarked
”You don't bother When you're on the trail, you're occupied about the horses and how far you can go Nothing else rins But I insisted on co and when the man at the hotel wanted to buy you off I ”
”On the whole, I'lad you were firht to have kept it up
I was vain and sure of raded road”
”The road was pretty bad,” said Jion,” Carrie rejoined ”When the road stopped and we hit the real wild country, I got frightened, like a child What use is there in starting out, if you can't go on?”
”You have gone on I don't think irls from the cities would have borne the journey with an outfit like ours But I don't quite get your object for leaving home”
”Ah,” said Carrie, ”you have done what you wanted, although it was perhaps hard You have tasted adventure, seen the wild North, and found gold You haven't known e, and tried to o as far as a dollar If you had talents, you could use them, but it wasn't like that with me I don't know if I have talent, but I felt I could do soroceries I longed to do soo out and take my chances, and see if I couldn't make my mark Then I wanted ot wet and tired I was afraid”