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LOO HAD been gone two days when a dowdy little woman came and held out a handful of small change.
-"A guardian and companion for my daughter--delicate, city-bred, marrying a rancher on a lonely island. She dreads the loneliness while her husband is out clearing his land. I thought a sheep-dog."