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Truelove caught her breath "Thee will be lonely in those forests"

"I am used to loneliness"

"There be Indians on the frontier They burn houses and carry away

prisoners And there are wolves and dangerous beasts"-"I aer"

Truelove's voice treroes and rude men, with none to comfort thy soul, none to whom thee can

speak in thy dark hours?"

"Before now I have spoken to the tobacco I have planted, the trees I have

felled, the swords and muskets I have sold"

"But at last thee came and spoke to me!"

"Ay," he answered "There have been times when you saved s, when the day's work is done, and

I sit uponto

me like the spirits in the valley of Glensyte, I will think of you

instead"

"Oh!" cried Truelove "Speak toupon the doorstep of our house, when our day's work is done!"

Her hood falling back showed her face, clear pink, with dewy eyes The

carnation deepening fro lashes, she suddenly hid her countenance in her gray cloak MacLean,

on his knees beside her, dreay the folds "Truelove, Truelove! do you