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She made several attenored,decided what he wanted to say, suddenly began: "I like this adventure Do you?"

"Adventure! Meetin' h of youth "Shore you er"

"Do you like it?" he persisted, and his eyes searched the half-averted face

"I ht like it," she answered, frankly, "if--if my temper had not made a fool of me I never meet anyone I care to talk to Why should it not be pleasant to run across soe in this heah wild country?"

"We are as we are," said Jean, siht so, would I want to see you again?"

"Do y'u?" The brown face flashed on hiladness And because he wanted to appear caler, he had to deny hi eyes

"Sure I do Reckon I'ht not have another chance to tell you, so please don't hold it againstof exultation He had been afraid he e to make it She walked on as before, only with her head bowed a little and her eyes downcast No color but the gold-brown tan and the blue tracery of veins showed in her cheeks He noticed then a slight swelling quiver of her throat; and he becaraceful contour, and to how full and pulsating it was, how nobly it set into the curve of her shoulder Here in her quivering throat was the weakness of her, the evidence of her sex, the worasp of strong brown hands on a rifle It had an effect on Jean totally inexplicable to hie warmth that stole over him and in the utterance he could not hold back

"Girl, we're strangers, but what of that? We've irls for months an' never felt this way I don't knoho you are an' I don't care You betrayed a good deal to me You're not happy You're lonely An' if I didn't want to see you again for s you said I'll not forget soon I've got a sister, an' I know you have no brother An' I reckon "