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"You've done it, then"

"Strikes me that I've done my duty in the matter"

"You have--admirably," she scoffed

"It's up to Di now--if you should take a fancy for entertaining your highway"

"It's not likely that I'll ever see hiain"

"I daresay not" He rose and looked across the rushing water "There's just one thing I stick out for Regardless of your interest in hiet on another footing until he has proved his innocence--absolutely and beyond question"

"Isn't that rather an unnecessary condition? I'ers who are merely casually polite to me"

He took in her sweet supple slimness, the fine throat line beneath the piquant lifted chin which mocked his caution, the little imps of raillery that flashed fro for the adventure of life she had a good deal of reticence and an abundant self-respect He felt that he had said h already

"Quite right, my dear I withdraw my condition"

"It's one I would insist upon myself--if there were any likelihood of any need of it--which there isn't"

An easy-going es till he came to the to, but he was glad to be through with it

"Hang the scahed "Maybe he'll break his neck on one of those outlaw bronchos he's so fond of riding Maybe they'll put hiiving in e Maybe, as you say, he'll have the bad taste to prefer Joyce to my little Irish wild rose, in which case he'll be put in his place at the proper time"

"It's even possible," she added with a hter, "that if he honored one with an offer--which it has never entered his head to do--one retfully decline with thanks"

"Arace by the hand, as old Bacon says" He brought his heels together, bowed over her fingers, and kissed the roayly