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She laughed softly "You are fond of the mountains"

"I have little else," he repeated

"Then they ought to be loyal to you But the first impression--it

hardly rerow any ser"

"Then you are fond of them That's constancy, and constancy is a

capital test of a charm"

"But I'm never sure whether they are, as you say, loyal to me We had

once on this division a rereat one He and I stood one night on a caisson at the

Spider Water--the first caisson he put into the river--do you re river you crossed on the plains----"

"Indeed! I aht I spent at the Spider

Water; continue"

"Hailey put in the bridge there 'This old streaht to be thankful

to you, Hailey, for a piece of work like this,' I said to him 'No,'

he answered, quite in earnest; 'the Spider doesn't like et me some time' So I think about these mountains I like theht of the

Spider--and the Spider did get hihtly

"The truce ends to-ly

"What, please, does that line ?'"

"I haven't an idea But, oh, these uard-rail "Could anything beantlike up a ht; on the left they overhung a bottoled up the curve, and as they talked