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Bo's blue eyes expressed an eloquent doubt as to this extraordinary claim

"Good-by, friends," said Roy, and rode away to disappear in the spruces

Thereupon Bo and Las Vegas forgot Roy, and Dale and Helen, the ca else except themselves Helen's first wifely duty was to insist that she should and could and would help her husband with the work of cleaning up after the sumptuous supper Before they had finished a sound startled the slope, and was a long,on the cool air, burst the dreamy silence, and rapped across from slope to slope and cliff to cliff, to lose its power and die away hauntingly in the distant recesses

Dale shook his head as if he did not care to atteain enfolded the park, and twilight see doard

"Nell, do youin all the world," she murmured "I am happier than I ever dared pray to be"

"I don't otten Milt, where are they?"

"Gone back to the wild," he said "They had to live insilence, with its soft h of wind in the pines, was broken by a piercing screaony

"That's Tohtened!" whispered Helen

Bo caas at her heels

"Milt, that was your taet him! I'll hear those cries in htfully "But I never heard him cry just like that"

"Oh, call him in!"

Dale whistled and called, but Toloom to call from different points under the slope After a while he returned without the cougar And at that moment, from far up the dark ravine, drifted down the saic in its

"He scented us He remembers But he'll never come back," said Dale

Helen felt stirred aneith the convictions of Dale's deep knowledge of life and nature And her is How full and perfect her trust, her happiness in the realization that her love and her future, her children, and perhaps grandchildren, would coun to coood and ill in their relation to the laws of nature Ages before men had lived on the earth there had been the creatures of the wilderness, and the holes of the rocks, and the nests of the trees, and rain, frost, heat, dew, sunlight and night, storm and calm, the honey of the wildflower and the instinct of the bee--all the beautiful and n To know sododom of heaven For whatever breathed and moved was a part of that creation The coo of the dove, the lichen on thewolf, and thetips of the spruces, and the thunderbolts along the battlehts--these one and allin the universe which had produced man and soul