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Crocker had taken unto himself a helpmate and was needed at his own place , and our gallant and genial comrade with his sweet wife left us only when it became evident to all at Phoenix that a new master was needed at Starlight Ranch . WELL WON ; OR , FROM THE PLAINS TO `` THE POINT . '' The sun was going down , and a little girl with big , dark eyes who was sitting in the waiting-room of the railway station was beginning to look very tired . Ever since the train came in at one o'clock she had been perched there between the iron arms of the seat , and now it was after six o'clock of the long June day , and high time that some one came for her . A bonny little mite she was , with a wealth of brown hair tumbling down her shoulders and overhanging her heavy eyebrows . She was prettily dressed , and her tiny feet , cased in stout little buttoned boots , stuck straight out before her most of the time , as she sat well back on the broad bench . She was a silent little body , and for over two hours had hardly opened her lips to any one , -- even to the doll that now lay neglected on the seat beside her .