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Like a shot the hound was off

"Ride in my tracks an' keep close to me," called Dale, as he wheeled his horse

"We're off!" squealed Bo, in wild delight, and she ed her horse after them and they broke across a corner of the swale to the woods Pedro was running straight, with his nose high He let out one short bark He headed into the woods, with Dale not far behind Helen was on one of Dale's best horses, but that fact scarcely an to increase their lead They entered the woods It was open, and fairly good going Bo's horse ran as fast in the woods as he did in the open That frightened Helen and she yelled to Bo to hold hireat risk--she did not intend to be careful Suddenly the forest rang with Dale's encouraging yell, ht the spirit of the chase He gained sos, soe excitement, utterly unfamiliar and as utterly resistless Yet her natural fear, and the intelligence that reckoned with the foolish risk of this ride, shared alike in her sum of sensations She tried to res, and sliding her knees back to avoid knocks fro branches She received a hard knock, then another, that unseated her, but frantically she held on and slid back, and at the end of a long run through co blow in the face fro branch of pine Bothat would have broken her in two Both Pedro and Dale got out of Helen's sight Then Helen, as she began to lose Bo, felt that she would rather run greater risks than be left behind to get lost in the forest, and she urged her horse Dale's yell pealed back Then it seeht Wind and brush tore at her The air was heavily pungent with odor of pine Helen heard a wild, full bay of the hound, ringing back, full of savage eagerness, and she believed Pedro had roused out the lion from soed her horse on faster

Then the swift pace slackened A windfall of tili a slope The forest seeely wished for level ground and the forht, and Dale's yell now caot out of the tiradual slope down to another park