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This latter circurew noisily manifest The forest seemed shrilly full of incessant baas and plaintive bleats All about the calades, and everywhere, were sheep A feere grazing;white fleecy little laered on their feet Everywhere Jean saw tiny lambs just born Their pin-pointed bleats pierced the heavier baa-baa of their mothers

Jean dismounted and led his horse doard the camp, where he rather expected to see another and older Mexican, froet information The lad walked with him Down this way the plaintive uproar made by the sheep was not so loud

"Hello there!" called Jean, cheerfully, as he approached the tent No ansas forthco for some one to appear Then a voice froirl stepped out from beside a pine She carried a rifle Her face flashed richly brown, but she was not Mexican This fact, and the sudden conviction that she had been watching hi pardon--irl I'ht I'd find a sheep herder who'd show o"

While he spoke it seemed to him an intentness of expression, a strain relaxed froestion of hostility likewise disappeared Jean was not even sure that he had caught it, but there had been solad to show y'u," she said

"Thanks,ride froo Hot an' dusty! I'ood o! Y'u're froht of her and he still held it, rather deferentially, perhaps It seeer Shore I can't recollect when any h in which surprise and frankness led with a tint of bitterness

Jean sat doith his back to a pine, and, laying the soular eagerness, as if he wanted to verify by close scrutiny a first hasty i with Colter, there was , with the shiny little carbine across her knees She had a level, curious gaze upon him, and Jean had never met one just like it Her eyes were rather a wide oval in shape, clear and steady, with shadows of thought in their aaze dropped first Then it was he saw her ragged ho and round, and crude worn-out moccasins that failed to hide the shapeliness, of her feet Suddenly she drew back her stockingless ankles and ill-shod little feet When Jean lifted his gaze again he found her face half averted and a stain of red in the gold tan of her cheek That touch of e, raoodland setting It changed her poise It detracted from the curious, unabashed, almost bold, look that he had encountered in her eyes