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When Bo got into the saddle Dale continued: "You went up quick an' light, but the wrong way Watch me"

Bo had to mount several times before Dale was satisfied Then he told her to ride off a little distance When Bo had gotten out of earshot Dale said to Helen: "She'll take to a horse like a duck takes to water" Then,and galloping and running the horses round the grassy park, and rather regretted she had not gone with the herself down, red-cheeked and radiant, with disheveled hair, and curls damp on her temples How alive she seerace and char sister, and she are of a sheer physical joy in her presence Bo rested, but she did not rest long She was soon off to play with Bud Then she coaxed the taed Helen off for wild flowers, curious and thoughtless by turns And at length she fell asleep, quickly, in a way that reone forever

Dale called the the western raone The hours had floiftly, serenely, bringing her scarcely a thought of her uncle or dread of her forced detention there or possible discovery by those outlaws supposed to be hunting for her After she realized the passing of those hours she had an intangible and indescribable feeling of what Dale hadthe hours away The nature of Paradise Park was iniht that had habitually been hers She found the new thought absorbing, yet when she tried to name it she found that, after all, she had only felt At the meal hour she was more than usually quiet She saw that Dale noticed it and was trying to interest her or distract her attention He succeeded, but she did not choose to let him see that She strolled away alone to her seat under the pine Bo passed her once, and cried, tantalizingly: "My, Nell, but you're growing romantic!"

Never before in Helen's life had the beauty of the evening star see and shadowy or the darkness so charged with loneliness It was their environ waterfall, of this strangewhich he made his home