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"That's how I get up," explained the girl "Now you go back around the

corner again, and when I'ton obeyed In a fewhim to approach and climb

He ascended the natural ladder easily, but ithin six or eight

feet of the large branch that reached across to the dike, the ss ceased, and so, naturally, the ladder teret up this?"

He looked across the intervening space expectantly, and then, to his

surprise, he observed that the girl was blushing furiously

"I--I," stauess

I--shinned!"

A light broke across Bennington's own, and he laughed The girl eyed hian to laugh in an ehed the harder He shinned up the

tree, to find that an ingenious hand rope had been fitted above the

bridge li of the short interval to the rock was

a reat difficulty In another instant he stood upon the

top of the dike

It was, as he had anticipated, nearly flat Under the pine branch,

which rew a thick cushion of moss

The one tree broke the freedom of the eye's sweep toward the west, but