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"Not many women'd tackle that," Dick said quietly, as Mountain Lad, easily retaining his horizontal position once it had been attained, swah slope to the anxious cowboy

The latter swiftly adjusted the halter with a turn of chain between the jaws But Paula, still astride, leaned forward, imperiously took the lead-part from the cowboy, whirled Mountain Lad around to face Forrest, and saluted

"Now you will have to go away," she called "This is our hen party, and the stag public is not adh the lilacs to the road

"Whoas it?" Grahairl, the child that never grew up, the grittiest puff of rose-dust that was ever woman"

"My breath is quite taken away," Graham said "Do your people do such stunts frequently?"

"First time she ever did that," Forrest replied "That was Mountain Lad She rode hianed with him, twenty-two hundred and forty pounds of his as well as her oas Graham's cos," Dick smiled "That's what a pool of breeders offered me for hiet as well as his at that price every day in the year until I went broke--only she doesn't She never has accidents"

"I wouldn't have given tuppence for her chance if he'd turned over"

"But he didn't," Dick answered placidly "That's Paula's luck She's tough to kill Why, I've had her under shell-fire where she was actually disappointed because she didn't get hit, or killed, or near- killed Four batteries opened on us, shrapnel, at e, and we had to cover half a mile of smooth hill-brow for shelter I really felt I was justified in charging her with holding back She did admit a 'trifle' We've been married ten or a dozen years now, and, d'ye know, sometimes it seems to me I don't know her at all, and that nobody knows her, and that she doesn't know herself--just the same way as you and I can look at ourselves in a mirror and wonder who the devil we are anyway Paula and I have oneAnd it doesn't matter whether the price is in dollars, hide, or life It's our way and our luck It works And, d'ye knoe've never been gouged on the price yet"