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The Tracks We Tread
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“Don’t you fret,” he said. “Jimmie’ll sleep in Ted’s bunk to-night.”

And Jimmie did. But Ted Douglas sat staring at the dead fire-ash until dawn-break, and twice a man roused in the night to hear Lou laughing like a child in his sleep.