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One day in July a fair young girl, with beautiful gray eyes, satupon the inverted pyra shoulders of the arding peaks Her exquisite lips, scarlet as strawberry stains, were drawn into an expression of bitter constraint, and her broere unnaturally knit Her hat lay beside her on the ground, her brown hair was blowing free, and in her eyes was the look of one longing for the world beyond the hills She appeared both lonely and desolate

It was a pity to see one so young and so co with sad and sullen brow such aërialpresented It was, indeed, a sort of i brow sth, rapt onder, she fixed her eyes on a single purple cloud which was dissolving, becole, yet burning each instant with evenas if to overtake the failing day A dream of still fairer lands, of conquest, and of love, swept over her--becaaze which co when desire of the future is strong

Upon her s a small sound broke, so faint, so far, she could not tell froht have been the rattle of a pebble under the feet of a near-by squirrel or the scra rush of a distant bear A few moments later the voice of adown the racefully as a faho, roused but not affrighted, stands on her irass and waits and listens

The man or men--for another voice could now be heard in answer--came rapidly on, and soon a couple of men and a small pack-train caulch, and, doubling backward and forward, descended swiftly upon the girl, who stood, with soht be, pass and precede her down to the valley She resented them, for the reason that they cut short her reverie, her moment of spiritual peace

The man who first appeared was a familiar type of the West, a sracefully yet wearily--the natural horseman and trailer Behind him two tired horses, heaped with a ca heads, while at the rear, sitting his saddle sturdily rather than with grace, rode a young h-and-ready dress of a plains in the manner of his beard, as well as in the poise of his head, proclaimed him to be the master of the little train, a man of culture and an alien