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She sighed "That is when I becoreater mystery--even to myself, I

fear," she added in a murmur too low for him to catch

They rode on in silence for a little spacedown between the trees like vapour The girl of her own accord

returned to the subject

"You are greatly to be envied," she said a little sadly, "for you are

really young I am old, oh, very, very old! You have trust and

confidence I have not I can sympathize; I can understand But that

is all There is so within ive way to the harder and harder forout the self that is my own Ah, but you are to be

envied! You have saved up and accumulated the beautiful in your nature

I have wasted mine, and now I sit by the roadside and cry for it My

only hope and prayer is that a higher and better soiven ht to expect it

Silly, isn't it?" she concluded bitterly

Bennington ulch, and could hear the mellow sound of bells as

the town herd defiled slowly down it toward town

"We part here," the young ain?"

"I do not know"

"To-irl shook herself from a reverie "If you want me to believe you,

come every afternoon to the Rock, and wait Soone