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`` Expect a lot of freight in a couple of weeks , you say ? All right , I 'll send you up with a team and when your freight comes in you can drive it back again . You can board the horses at Preble 's . '' Their purchases were complete by noon , but Hackett would not let them start until morning . `` No use , '' he said , `` for tenderfeet to try camping on a short trip and it would be hard on the little girl . Get a dawn start and make the trip in one shift . '' So they whiled away the afternoon by a tramp over the desert , and after supper turned Felicia over to the landlady at Delmonico 's , the adobe hotel , which was clean if it was meager .