I do not know. What does Majella think will be wise? If
men have been sent out to pursue us, they may be at Hartsel's. His
store is the place where everybody stops, everybody goes. I dare
not have you go there, Majella; yet I must go. The only way I can
get any money is from Mr. Hartsel."
"I must wait somewhere while you go!" said Ramona, her heart
beating as she gazed ahead into the blackness of the great plain. It
looked vast as the sea. "That is the only safe thing, Alessandro."
"I think so too," he said; "but, oh, I am afraid for you; and will not
you be afraid?"
"Yes," she replied, "I am afraid. But it is not so dangerous as the
other."
"If anything were to happen to me, and I could not come back to
you, Majella, if you give Baba his reins he will take you safe
home,-- he and Capitan."
Ramona shrieked aloud. She had not thought of this possibility.
Alessandro had thought of everything. "What could happen?" she
cried.
"I mean if the men were there, and if they took me for stealing the
horse," he said.
"But you would not have the horse with you," she said.
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