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Helen had a mischievous trait, which, subdue it as she would, occasionally cropped out; and Bo, who once in her wilful life had been rendered speechless, offered such a teood word for you--to Uncle Al," said Helen Just then the train jerked, and started slowly The cowboy took two long strides beside the car, his heated boyish face almost on a level with the , his eyes, now shy and a little wistful, yet bold, too, fixed upon Bo

"Good-by--Sweetheart!" he called

He halted--was lost to view

"Well!" ejaculated Helen, contritely, half sorry, half aentlelorious!" she burst out, with eyes shining

"I'd hardly call him that, but he was--nice," replied Helen, much relieved that Bo had apparently not taken offense at her

It appeared plain that Bo resisted a frantic desire to look out of theand to wave her hand But she only peeped out, manifestly to her disappointment

"Do you think he--he'll come to Uncle Al's?" asked Bo

"Child, he was only in fun"

"Nell, I'll bet you he co to love cowboys They don't look like that Harve Riggs who ran after you so"

Helen sighed, partly because of the reminder of her odious suitor, and partly because Bo's future already called mysteriously to the child Helen had to be at once a irl of intense and wilful spirit

One of the trainto a bold, blunt bluff of bare rock; and, calling it Starvation Peak, he told a story of how Indians had once driven Spaniards up there and starved them Bo was intensely interested, and thereafter she watchedtrainman The adobe houses of the Mexicans pleased her, and, then the train got out into Indian country, where pueblos appeared near the track and Indians with their bright colors and shaggy wild s--then she was enraptured

"But these Indians are peaceful!" she exclairetfully

"Gracious, child! You don't want to see hostile Indians, do you?" queried Helen

"I do, you bet," was the frank rejoinder

"Well, I'LL bet that I'll be sorry I didn't leave you with mother"

"Nell--you never will!"

They reached Albuquerque about noon, and this ie trains, had been the first dreaded anticipation of the journey It certainly was a busy place--full of jabbering Mexicans, stalking, red-faced, wicked-looking cowboys, lolling Indians In the confusion Helen would have been hard put to it to preserve cale to carry, and the other train to find; but the kindly brakeman who had been attentive to them now helped them off the train into the other--a service for which Helen was very grateful