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The responsibility of the ranch had turned out to be a heavy burden It could not be ed, at least by her, in the way Auchincloss wanted it done He was old, irritable, irrational, and hard Alainst him, and naturally did not take kindly to Helen

She had not found the slightest evidence of unfair dealing on the part of her uncle, but he had been a hard driver Then his shrewd, far-seeing judgment had ht a profit of friendship

Of late, since Auchincloss had groeaker and less doratifying and hopeful results But the wonderful happiness that she had expected to find in the West still held aloof The memory of Paradise Park seeible as tirets Bo was a coht have been a help to Helen if she had not assis in her ohich was as yet quite far from Western So Helen had been thrown more and more upon her own resources, with the cowboy Carmichael the only one who had come forward voluntarily to her aid

For an hour Helen sat alone in the roo stern reality with a colder, graver, keener sense of intimacy than ever before To hold her property and to live her life in this co to her ideas of honesty, justice, and law ht well be beyond her powers To-day she had been convinced that she could not do so without fighting for theht she must have friends That conviction warhtful consideration of all he had done for her proved that she had not fully appreciated hiht

There were no Morood reason that Auchincloss would not hire the rare now, he had admitted that the Mormons were the best and the es, and that his sole objection to them was just this fact of their superiority Helen decided to hire the four Beemans and any of their relatives or friends ould co her uncle know His te the Beeht Helen back to Carmichael's fervent wish for Dale, and then to her own