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"Sure," replied Bo, with her mouth full of biscuit

That was how they ca, slow, steep ride under cover of dense spruce Helen liked the ride after they got on the heights But they did not get to any point where she could indulge in her pleasure of gazing afar over the ranges Dale led up and down, and finally ht of sparser wooded ridges with parks lying below and strea in the sun

More than once Pedro had to be harshly called by Dale The hound scented ga to point at sorayish-white hair lay strewn around

"What was it?" asked Bo

"Deer, of course Killed there an' eaten by a lion Sometime last fall See, even the skull is split But I could not say that the lion did it"

Helen shuddered She thought of the taraceful, and responsive to kindness!

They rode out of the woods into a grassy sith rocks and clu it Here Pedro barked, the first time Helen had heard him The hair on his neck bristled, and it required stern calls froet back," he ordered "I'll let you go presently Girls, you're goin' to see somethin' But stay on your horses"

Dale, with the hound tense and bristling beside hie of the swale Presently he halted on a slight elevation and beckoned for the girls to ride over

"Here, see where the grass is pressed down all nice an' round," he said, pointing "A lion made that He sneaked there, watchin' for deer That was done this mornin' Come on, now Let's see if we can trail hi Pedro Suddenly he straightened up with a flash in his gray eyes

"Here's where he jumped"

But Helen could not see any reason why Dale should say that Thestride then another

"An' here's where that lion lit on the back of the deer It was a big jump See the sharp hoof tracks of the deer" Dale pressed aside tall grass to show dark, rough, fresh tracks of a deer, evidentlyswiftly "You're sure goin' to see somethin' now Here's where the deer bounded, carryin' the lion"