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No birds or ani ride up toward the tie to Helen The air lost soher, and it gained sweeter tang of forest-land The first faint suggestion of that fragrance was utterly new to Helen, yet it brought a vague sensation of fae It was as if she had so, and her physical sense caught it before her memory

The yellow plain had only appeared to be level Roy led down into a shallow ravine, where a tiny strea at length to a point where cedars and dwarf pines forrove Here, as the others rode up, he sat cross-legged in his saddle, and waited

"We'll hang up awhile," he said "Reckon you're tired?"

"I'ry, but not tired yet," replied Bo

Helen dis she had apparently lost the power to do Bo laughed at her, but she, too, ard when once ot down Helen was surprised to find hilance

"A hoss threw me once an' rolled on me Only broke s in two places!"

Notwithstanding this evidence that he was a cripple, as he stood there tall and lithe in his hoularly powerful and capable

"Reckon walkin' around would be good for you girls," advised Dale "If you ain't stiff yet, you'll be soon An' walkin' will help Don't go far I'll call when breakfast's ready"

A little while later the girls histled in fro theed, like an Indian, in front of a tarpaulin, upon which was spread a homely but substantial fare Helen's quick eye detected a cleanliness and thoroughness she had scarcely expected to find in the caood She ate heartily, and as for Bo's appetite, she was inclined to be asirls, but speaking seldoaze went often down across the open country She divined apprehension from it rather than saw much expression in it