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Nextreturned, Helen shared Bo's lesson in bridling and saddling her horse, and in riding Bo, however, rode so fast and so hard that for Helen to share her company was impossible And Dale, interested and amused, yet anxious, spent most of his time with Bo It was thus that Helen rode all over the park alone She was astonished at its size, when from almost any point it looked so small The atan to judge distance by the size of fath of the park, seemed very small indeed Here and there she rode upon dark, swift, little brooks, exquisitely clear and arass These all ran one way, and united to form a deeper brook that apparently wound under the cliffs at the west end, and plunged to an outlet in narrow clefts When Dale and Bo came to her once she made inquiry, and she was surprised to learn from Dale that this brook disappeared in a hole in the rocks and had an outlet on the other side of the mountain Sometime he would take them to the lake it for that she itive "Will it be safe to leave our hiding-place? I forget so often e are here"

"We would be better hidden over there than here," replied Dale "The valley on that side is accessible only froe An' don't worry about bein' found I told you Roy Bee Roy will keep between theer in the background of her mind a sense of dread In spite of this, she determined to make the most of her opportunity Bo was a stiing after her sister

The next day was less hard on Helen Activity, rest, eating, and sleeping took on a wonderful new e joys She rode, she walked, she climbed a little, she dozed under her pine-tree, she worked helping Dale at caht came she said she did not know herself That fact haunted her in vague, deep dreaot her resolve to study herself That day passed And then several more went swiftly before she adapted herself to a situation she had reason to believe ht last for weeks and even months