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So the hours passed, the sun got around low, sending golden shafts under the trees, and the forest gradually changed to a brighter, but a thicker, color This slowly darkened Sunset was not far away

She heard the horses splashing in water, and soon she rode up to see the tiny streareenthe last one into a e, towering, and far apart A low, gray bluff of stone rose to the right, perhaps one-third as high as the trees Fro Spring," announced Dale "We calance proved to Helen that all those little strea for a drink," cried Bo with her custoet your first drink here," remarked Dale

Bo essayed to disround her legs appeared to refuse their natural function, and she fell flat Dale helped her up

"What's wrong with reat amaze

"Just stiff, I reckon," replied Dale, as he led her a feard steps

"Bo, have you any hurts?" queried Helen, who still sat her horse, loath to try disave her an eloquent glance

"Nell, did you have one in your side, like a wicked, long darning-needle, punching deep when you weren't ready?"

"That one I'll never get over!" exclai by Bo's experience, she diss felt like wooden things

Presently the girls went toward the spring

"Drink slow," called out Dale

Big Spring had its source soray, weathered bluff, frole and roar of water Its fountainhead h the cold stone

Helen and Bo lay flat on atheir faces as they bent over, and they sipped a mouthful, by Dale's advice, and because they were so hot and parched and burning they wanted to tarry a moment with a precious opportunity

The water was so cold that it sent a shock over Helen,current steal all through her, wonderful in its cool absorption of that dry heat of flesh, irresistible in its appeal to thirst Helen raised her head to look at this water It was colorless as she had found it tasteless