Page 122 (1/1)

Dick rarely appeared, even for aout her seclusion prograhed one noon, and challenged Grahale-sticks, and foils

"And now's the time," he told Graham, as they breathed between bouts, "for you to tackle your book I' it, and I' forward hard Got a letter from Havely yesterday--heyou were"

So Graharaphs, sche chapters So iht have languished, had it not been forat dinner Then, too, until Ernestine and Lute left for Santa Barbara, there were afternoon swims and rides and motor trips to the pastures of the Miraes of the Anselmo Mountains Other trips they ers working in the Sacra on the Little Coyote and Los Cuatos creeks, or to his five-thousand-acre colony of twenty-acre far to enable two hundred and fifty heads of faood on the soil

That Paula so solitary rides, Graha fro rails

"Don't you think you are spoiling that hed and shook her head

"Well, then," he asserted stoutly, "I' for a ride with you"

"There's Lute, and Ernestine, and Bert, and all the rest"

"This is new country," he contended "And one learns country through the people who know it I've seen it through the eyes of Lute, and Ernestine and all the rest; but there is a lot I haven't seen and which I can see only through your eyes"

"A pleasant theory," she evaded "A--a sort of landscape vaed quickly

Her ansas slow in coht, and he could guess her words eighed and gauged

"I don't know about that," was all she said finally; but his fancy leaped at the several words, ranging and conjecturing their possible connotations

"But we have so ain "Soto each other"