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"I have stakedthe storm

calmly, "and won Have you made but one trip, when you first came, do

you say?"

"The very first day"

"Then you haven't seen Devil's Gap To see it," he continued, "you

over the Spanish Sinks"

"Ah, how that sounds!" exclaiht we have full htly you

have seen Devil's Gap, for that is given to but few tourists"

"Do not call us tourists," objected Gertrude

"And from where did you see Devil's Gap--The Pilot?"

"No, from across the Tarn"

If the expression of Glover's face, returning somewhat the ridicule

heaped on hihtseers it

was effective He was restored, provisionally, to favor; his

suggestion that after dinner they take horses for the ride up Pilot

Mountain to where the Gap could be seen by erly

adopted, and Mrs Whitney's objection to dressing again was put down

Marie, fearing the hardship, demurred, but Glover woke to so lively

interest, and promised the trip should be so easy that when she

consented to go he made it his affair to attend directly to her comfort