BY HELEN JACKSON (H. H.), AUTHOR OF “RAMONA,” “A CENTURY OF DISHONOR,” “VERSES,” “BITS OF TRAVEL,” “BITS OF TRAVEL AT HOME,” “BITS OF TALK ABOUT HOME MATTERS,” “BITS OF TALK FOR YOUNG FOLKS,” “MERCY PHILBRICK’S CHOICE,” “HETTY’S STRANGE HISTORY,” “NELLY’S SILVER MINE,” “LETTERS FROM A CAT,” “MAMMY TITTLEBACK AND HER FAMILY,” “THE HUNTER CATS OF CONNORLOA.” The long Colorado twilight was over. But it was not yet quite lamplight time by the clock, and Miss Sophy Burr was sitting in a brown study at her kitchen window. This was the time she always took to make a swift retrospect in her mind of the results, profitable or otherwise, of the day just ended. She could think better in the dark, and …
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