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Strong, clear-eyed and ht be capable of great sin, but what he did would be done with his eyes wide open and not fro jubilantly How could she ever have drea above any evidence

"And you'll sit doith hed

She did not wait to be asked, but sat down, tailor fashion, and looked expectantly up with a huht played on her through theleaves and accented the youthful blooh of content he stretched hiulch, a sword cleft in the hills, passed over the grove of young pines through which he had recently descended, and ca erectly on the turf

"It's sohbor," he said

"I' softly out of her

The sun lit the tips of the pines, so that they looked like burnished lances in battle array, poured its beams over the scarred hillside, and bathed the little valley in effulgent glory

"You can always find it so on an elbow indolently

She asked for no antecedent to his pronoun What he uous to her

"If one knohere to look for it," she added softly

"That's the trouble We get so busy with our little everyday troubles that we forget to look But the joy of life is always there if we'll forget our grouch and see it"

"Yes--if having eyes we see"

"I'm comforted a heap to know that you believe in me--even if I' laugh

Had he been looking at her he would have seen the telltale color tide her cheeks "If that is a coht have known the idea of connecting you with such a thing was folly"

He glanced whihbor I'ht another knows is wrong You'd have to make a heap of allowances for me if I were your friend"

"Isn't that what friendship is for--to make allowances?"

"You've found that out already, have you?"

The long-lashed lids fell to her cheeks in self-defense Not for worlds would she have had hie ready to leap out toward hiling in every nerve, athrob with an e slow breath and turned her head away A hot shah her veins She whipped herself with her own scorn Was she the kind of girl that gave her love to a man who did not want it?