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Roy led on, and Ranger follohile the shadows darkened under the trees She was reeling in her saddle, half blind and sick, when Roy called out cheerily that they were almost there

Whatever his idea was, to Helen it seemed many miles that she followed him farther, out of the heavy-tireen, which descended sharply to another level, where dark, shallow streaently and the sole water, and at last the wood ended upon a wonderful park full of a thick, rich, golden light of fast-fading sunset

"Smell the smoke," said Roy "By Solomon! if Milt ain't here ahead of aze took in the round senaca, the circling black slopes, leading up to craggy riold and red in the last flare of the sun; then all the spirit left in her flashed up in thrilling wonder at this exquisite, wild, and colorful spot

Horses were grazing out in the long grass and there were deer grazing with the woodland, and there, under lofty trees, shone a caray rocks loomed beyond, and then cliffs rose step by step to a notch in the mountain wall, over which poured a thin, lacy waterfall As Helen gazed in rapture the sunset gold faded to white and all the western slope of the amphitheater darkened

Dale's tall form appeared

"Reckon you're late," he said, as with a coot lost," replied Roy

"I feared as irls look like you'd done better to ride with me," went on Dale, as he offered a hand to help Bo off She took it, tried to get her foot out of the stirrups, and then she slid from the saddle into Dale's ar her, said, solicitously: "A hundred-mile ride in three days for a tenderfoot is somethin' your uncle Al won't believe Come, walk if it kills you!"

Whereupon he led Bo, verya child to walk The fact that the voluble Bo had nothing to say was significant to Helen, as following, with the assistance of Roy

One of the huge rocks resembled a sea-shell in that it contained a hollow over which the wide-spreading shelf flared out It reached toward branches of great pines A spring burst from a crack in the solid rock The campfire blazed under a pine, and the blue colu rock Packs were lying on the grass and sons here of a pere rocks, leaning, cracked, and for caverns, some of which perhaps he utilized