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Both Dale and Roy et through to the skin, yet they did not tarry beside the fire They relieved the horses A lasso went up between two pines, and a tarpaulin over it, V-shaped and pegged down at the four ends The packs containing the baggage of the girls and the supplies and bedding were placed under this shelter

Helen thought this ht have taken five minutes more In this short space of tie and hot Rain was falling steadily all around, but over and near that roaring blaze, ten feet high, no water fell It evaporated The ground began to steam and to dry Helen suffered at first while the heat was driving out the cold But presently the pain ceased

"Nell, I never knew before how good a fire could feel," declared Bo

And therein lay more food for Helen's reflection

In ten minutes Helen was dry and hot Darkness careat camp-fire made it a different world from the one Helen had anticipated It blazed and roared, cracked like a pistol, hissed and sputtered, shot sparks everywhere, and sent aloft a dense, yellohirling coluold

Dale took a long pole and raked out a pile of red ean to steaht," said the hunter

"Mebbe to-morrow, if the wind shifts This 's turkey country"

"Roy, a potato will do ain will I ask for cake and pie! I never appreciated good things to eat And I've been a little pig, always I never--never knehat it was to be hungry--until now"

Dale glanced up quickly

"Lass, it's worth learnin'," he said

Helen's thought was too deep for words In such brief space had she been transforh it appeared to grow softer as night settled down black The wind died away and the forest was still, except for the steady roar of the stream A folded tarpaulin was laid between the pine and the fire, well in the light and war pots and plates and cups, the fragrance fro

"Fetch the saddle-blanket an' set with your backs to the fire," said Roy

Later, when the girls were tucked away snugly in their blankets and sheltered from the rain, Helen re blaze ht as day She could see the s aloft, and a blank space of sky The strealy musical at ti, and always rushing, gurgling, babbling, flowing, chafing in its hurry