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Helen hoped the comparison was undeserved, but the advice was sound The blankets spread out on the grass looked inviting and they felt couorous, fragrant, and it brought the low hu waterfall, like a melody of bees Helen reen pine-needles, so thin and fine in their crisscross network, showed clearly against the blue sky She looked in vain for birds Then her gaze onderingly to the lofty fringed rian to grasp its remoteness, how far away it was in the rarefied at, looked of tiny size, and yet he was far under the heights above How pleasant she fancied it to be up there! And drowsy fancy lulled her to sleep

Helen slept all afternoon, and upon awakening, toward sunset, found Bo curled beside her Dale had thoughtfully covered therowing keen and cold

Later, when they had put their coats on and made comfortable seats beside the fire, Dale came over, apparently to visit them

"I reckon you can't sleep all the tiet loneso lonesoht that all out," went on Dale, as he sat down, Indian fashion, before the blaze "It's natural you'd find tioin's-on, an' work, an' all girls like"

"I'd never be lonesome here," replied Helen, with her direct force

Dale did not betray surprise, but he showed that histo ponder over

"Excuse ray eyes held hers "That's how I had it As I re since I left home--most of them would die of lonesomeness up here" Then he addressed hiured you'd be the one that liked it, an' your sister the one ouldn't"

"I won't get lonesolad It worried irls as company before An' in a day or so, when you're rested, I'll help you pass the ti interest, and Helen asked him, "How?"

It was a sincere expression of her curiosity and not doubtful or ironic challenge of an educated woe he took it