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"Oh, whom do you suppose? I mean Tom!" she responded, and the last word caas Yes, I've seen him"

"Well, did he ask a-aboutlike that"

"Humph! Nell, I don't always trust you" After that she relapsed into silence, read awhile, and drea into the fire, and then she liht and left the rooe of one of the dispirited spells she got infrequently Early in the evening, just after the lights had been lit and she had joined Helen in the sitting-room, a familiar step sounded on the loose boards of the porch

Helen went to the door to admit Carmichael He was clean-shaven, dressed in his dark suit, which presented such arb, and he wore a flower in his buttonhole Nevertheless, despite all this style, he seemed more than usually the cool, easy, careless cowboy

"Evenin', Miss Helen," he said, as he stalked in "Evenin', Miss Bo How are you-all?"

Helen returned his greeting with a welco--TOM," said Bo, demurely

That assuredly was the first time she had ever called hily pretty and tantalizing But if she had calculated to floor Car use of his nareeting as if he had heard her use it a thousand ti a part he was certainly a clever actor He puzzled her somewhat, but she liked his look, and his easyabout hione far enough, perhaps too far, in his overtures to Bo

"How are you feelin'?" he asked

"I'm better to-day," she replied, with downcast eyes "But I'm lame yet"

"Reckon that bronc piled you up Miss Helen said there shore wasn't any joke about the cut on your knee Now, a fellar's knee is a bad place to hurt, if he has to keep on ridin'"

"Oh, I'll be well soon How's Sah he never knowed he had a fall"

"Tos what he deserved"