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As Helen Rayner watched Dale ride away on a quest perilous to him, and which e that she could think of nothing except the thrilling, tumultuous moment when she had put her arms round his neck

It did not matter that Dale--splendid fellow that he was--hadher action as he had taken it--the fact that she had actually done it was enough How utterly impossible for her to anticipate her impulses or to understand the realization then was that when Dale returned with her sister, Helen knew she would do the saain!

"If I do--I won't be two-faced about it," she soliloquized, and a hot blush flaht

When he had gone, worry and dread replaced this other confusing e events Before supper she packed her valuables and books, papers, and clothes, together with Bo's, and had them in readiness so if she was forced to vacate the premises she would have her personal possessions

The Mormon boys and several other of her trusted men slept in their tarpaulin beds on the porch of the ranch-house that night, so that Helen at least would not be surprised But the day came, with its manifold duties undisturbed by any event And it passed sloith the leaden feet of listening, watching vigilance

Carmichael did not come back, nor was there news of him to be had The last known of hi day, when a sheep-herder had seen hie, headed for the hills The Beemans reported that Roy's condition had improved, and also that there was a subdued exciteht was almost unendurable for Helen When she slept it was to dream horrible dreams; when she lay awake it was to have her heart leap to her throat at a rustle of leaves near the , and to be in torture of iht A thousand times Helen said to herself that Beasley could have had the ranch and welcome, if only Bo had been spared Helen absolutely connected her eneht have been a ht was not attended by so s to do that de, shortly before noon, she was recalled to her perplexities by a shouting out at the corrals and a galloping of horses so smoke