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"Yes, I have"

"Do you have any idea how strong a cowboy is--how his hands and arms are like iron?"

"Yes, I'e he is?"

"Yes"

"And how he goes at anything he wants to do?"

"I must admit cowboys are abrupt," responded Helen, with a smile

"Well, Miss Rayner, did you ever--when you were standing quiet like a lady--did you ever have a cowboy dive at you with a terrible lunge--grab you and hold you so you couldn'tyou till all your bones cracked--and kiss you so fierce and so hard that you wanted to kill him and die?"

Helen had gradually drawn back fro-eyed, eloquent sister, and when the end of that remarkable question came it was impossible to reply

"There! I see you never had that done to you," resumed Bo, with satisfaction "So don't ever talk to me"

"I've heard his side of the story," said Helen, constrainedly

With a start Bo sat up straighter, as if better to defend herself

"Oh! So you have? And I suppose you'll take his part--even about that--that bearish trick"

"No I think that rude and bold But, Bo, I don't believe he meant to be either rude or bold Froather that he believed he'd lose you outright or win you outright by that violence It seeirls can't play at love out here in this wild West He said there would be blood shed over you I begin to realize what he e that is For he has the instincts of a gentleentle, chivalrous Evidently he had tried every way to win your favor except any familiar advance He did that as a last resort In my opinion his motives were to force you to accept or refuse him, and in case you refused hie his self-respect--when he thought of Turner or any one else daring to be fah Carot to be honest with yourself Did that act of his win or lose you? In other words, do you love him or not?"

Bo hid her face

"Oh, Nell! it made me see how I loved him--and that one"