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And next day Dale showed the exauided them on horseback up one of the thick, verdant-wooded slopes, calling their attention at various tied on the surew scant and dwarfed At the edge of tinarled and knotted spruce-tree, twisted out of all semblance to a beautiful spruce, bent and stor one' way The tree was a specter It stood alone It had little green upon it There seeic about its contortions But it was alive and strong It had no rivals to take sun or moisture Its enehts

Helen felt, as the realization cae Dale wished to impart, that it was as sad as wonderful, and asAt thatand sweetness of life--the pain and the joy--in Helen's heart These strange facts were going to teach her--to transform her And even if they hurt, she welcomed them