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"Dotty! Me? Dotty!" ejaculated Auchincloss Then he swore "In a minit I'll tell you what you are"

"But, Al, that talk's so--so--like an old fool's"

"Huh! An' why so?"

"Because that--wonderful girl would never look at me," Dale replied, simply

"I seen her lookin' already," declared Al, bluntly

Dale shook his head as if arguing with the old rancher was hopeless

"Never mind thet," went on Al "Mebbe I am a dotty old fool--'specially for takin' a shine to you But I say again--will you come down to Pine and be my foreman?"

"No," replied Dale

"Milt, I've no son--an' I'itated whisper

"Al, you make me ashamed," said Dale, hoarsely "I can't come I've no nerve"

"You've no what?"

"Al, I don't knohat's wrong with me But I'm afraid I'd find out if I cairl!"

"I don't know, but I'm afraid so An' I won't co heart and tingling ears, andto what had not been intended for her ears, yet she could not be sorry She walked a few rods along the brook, out froe of the park, she felt the beautiful scene still her agitation The following moments, then, were the happiest she had spent in Paradise Park, and the profoundest of her whole life

Presently her uncle called her

"Nell, this here hunter wants to give you thet black hoss An' I say you take hiive him," said Dale "He runs free in the woods ed if she'd have hilance froer Just offer hi a blanket in his hand, ready to saddle the horse Car eye so keen in cowboys

"Las Vegas, do you know anything about horses?" asked Bo

"Me! Wal, if you ever buy or trade a hoss you shore have er?" went on Bo

"Shore I'd buy him sudden, if I could"