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and boy boys completed the disarming of the band hand and ind that enning set out with them on the south trail trall it ll 11 doubtful it if thil this history would I 1 have been written but for an accidental and highly interesting circumstance in the first party young jack irons rode a colt coll juet just broken with the girl captive now happily released the boy had helped everyone to get away aay then there seemed to be no horse for him he lie walked for a dis tits tance by the stranger strangers mount na as the latter wa was wild the girl was silent for alime altae after the colt had settled down don now and find then wiping tears from her eye eyes by and by ehe she asked may I 1 lead the colt while you ride oh no I 1 am era not tired wa mas his answer anser 1 I apt to do something for you chyll 1 I am so grateful I 1 feel like tle binge cat I 1 am trying to express my feelings I 1 think I 1 know now why the indian women do the drudgery ae As she looked at him ler dark eye eyes were very serious 1 I have done little said he it Is I 1 mr binkus who rescued you we live in a wild country among savages and the white folk folks have to protect each ether other were used to it if 11 1 I never saw or expected to see men like you she went on I 1 I 1 have read of them in books but I 1 never hoped to see them and talk to them you are like ajax and achilles Achl lles then I 1 shall say that you are like the fair lady for whom they fought 1 I will not ride and see you walking then sit forward as far as you can and I 1 will ride with you be he answered in a moment he was on the colts colt back behind her she he was a comely maiden an authority no less respect able than major duncan has written that she the vi as a tall well shaped fun loving girl a little past sixteen and good to look upon with dark eyes and auburn hair the latter long and heavy and in the sunlight richly col ored that she had slender finger fingers and a beautiful skin nil all showing that she had been delicately bred lie add adds that he envied the boy who bad ridden before and behind her half the length of tryon county it was a close association and jack found it so 0 o agreeable that he often referred to that ride its the most exciting adventure of his life what Is your name I 1 I 1 he asked is margaret hare 1 she an answered sered how illow did they catch you jour Ibb bb they came clime suddenly and etca alth ith ily as they do in the story books ft hen we were users conlone lone in to camp my father and the guides had gone out gut to hunt did they treat you felir well the indiana indians let us alone but the two white men annoyed and frightened us UL the old chief kept ua us near him the old chief knew better than to let any barm harm come to you tou until they were sure tire of getting away with ith their plunder we were in the valey valley of death and you have led us as out of it I 1 am sure that I 1 do not look as it if iberis I 1 worth I 1 suppose that I 1 must have turned into an old woman oman Is I 1 my hair whiter po fo you are the best beat looking eirl girl I 1 ever saw be he declared with rustic frankness 1 I never had bad a compliment that pleased me so much she oe ans answered as her elbows tightened a little on his bands which A hach were clinging dinting to her coat 1 I almost loved you tor for what you did to the old villain I 1 saw blood on the aide side of your bead I 1 fear be he hurt your he ile jabbed me once it is I 1 nothing how brave you were I 1 1 I I 1 am more scared now than thin I 1 was th then laid solid jack scared I 1 why obyr r A hia liti by IRVING BACHELLER copyright by irvinc I 1 11 of t until to 0 gl fix except my au lilt hp I 1 luche I 1 find antim prod ri if I 1 I 1 nin all not listed 14 tn in mm I 1 nn nit mir you cannot I 1 tc e no it art I 1 an I 1 tot I 1 lit fit I 1 rot antin I 1 lit r ajoy it U I 1 liko like to ti 11 i i it 0 11 little I 1 alili film is io no dirries nt I 1 like foil you he det 1111 lared with a i 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at do nu ou like good looking cirl I 1 id d rather look at chent than int fat uell sell there are ninny many ID in I 1 on I 1 n one la in enough nom sli aid said jack I 1 I 1 d ioie loe to show them a real hero dont don I 1 call me that if ou out jut just call me jack irons I 1 d like it bet bpi ter hut first you 11 ant to kno how I 1 behave I 1 nm am not a fighter 1 I I am ure sure that your character Is ai as good ai no your face I 1 gosh I 1 I 1 hope it on aint t so 0 o dark col ored aid sald jack 1 I knew all about you when you took my hand and helped me on oil the gonyor nearly all you are a sta gen tieman 1 I 1 hope so are you a no church of Fri fridland gland 1 I was wa eure sure of that I 1 have seen indians rind shakers but I 1 have never seen a presbyterians when the sun un was as low and the corn com pany ahead were stopping to moke make a camp for the night the boy and girl dismounted she turned facing him and asked I 1 you mean it when you said that I 1 was good looking did your you the bashful youth had imagination and like many lad lads of his time a romantic I 1 1 1 b HIS fatties FAT tiEp MADE A LEANTO LEAN TO temperament and the lore love of poetry there were many books in his hl father i a home and the boy had lived his leisure in them ue thought a moment and answered anew ered yes I 1 think you are as beautiful ai to a young doe due playing in the water lilles and you look ai it you believed yourself said ehe she 1 I am ure sure you bould like me better it if I 1 ere fixed flied up a little 1 I do not think po how nicch much better a boys boy head bead look looks with his hi hair cot cut close like yours our boy boys have long hair they do not look took to 0 o ranch much like ilke ildeni men long hair Is not tor for rou rough h work tn in the bush the boy bor remarked yon you really loek look brae and trong strong one would know that you could do hinge things ive alway always had bad to do thing they the came up to the party who hail bad topped stopped to camp for the night it wai was a clear warm evening after they had hobbled hob blei the horses in a near meadow flat jack and his father made a leanto lean to for the nomen omen and children and roofed rooted it with ath bark then they cut wood and built a fire and gathered touch for bedding latr lator tea was made and and bacon grilled on spits of green birch the dripping fat being caught on 03 slices of toasting bread whereon the meat nas presently served ift hotd the masterful power with which the stalwart alwart tt youth and his father swung I 1 the lit ax at and their cunning craftsman ship impressed Impre ned the english woman and her daughter and were soon to be the he topic of many a london landon tea party hm mr hare spoke of it as she was eating her supper it bay inay surprise you further to 0 o learn team that the boy Is 1 fairly fa 1114 ath t fal 1 l th fit apfeld an I 1 ali the ole lei of home unil iona the hiso lil giltory tory lory nf of trance anil anti ang anni in ald irlin in tm if lollin I 1 hint t 1 flip th ois thin I 1 ba linro ev vr r hv 1 how linn ham to I 1 done it itt hie mil lot not his master until we 0 amt 1 ni into flip hush 11 I 1 it in n I 1 had to to I 1 former and no ti it 11 I 1 ti if acher I 1 here 1 to it krent for harning in till this nw se I 1 arll off I 1 ilo biou on find limp for it itt oil if e lf HIM ni 0 if 1111 imire here 11 mors 10 linn if i hitie in ili I 1 aglan I 1 it an ii en our at bithy wing town nr art I 1 ite milt out otil lint nn I 1 piny cards until in flip morning lint p until told in I 1 I 1 n oil find lie rock cock fight fin annl I 1 leu left find lInni nt I 1 the lint II 11 lav kimidy half lint 11 ll t urk nn annl till anti khop nd fill light moll 11 J I 1 di do 1 lint I fit but bill it IT not lint dion nemir nf Mir if it it cpr erp not fr fir etier IP be nil no rod on I 1 11 juull ti out I 1 tind find america A n tood good on to lh in lit t least I 1 finite it lt will hf his good to 11 in fill q the moann nn 1 Dren niland Is I 1 now ali flip only countr I 1 carp for ilie ladles find children teeing feln near spent it tip if P anye day a el find I 1 zelte mints turned in soon after kuppr the men slept in tin their blanket blankets hy by the tire fire an were up before daylight for a dip in the creek near by mille title they were kelting brink fast the wom oni en and children had hall their turn at the lay the capthens were in better ti t 1111 I brits soon after noon the compan ame fame to a wollen river here the horses had some sulm ming to do the older animals and the fol lowing colt colts went through all right but the youn young tallion stallion which jack and margaret bere ere riding began to rear and plunge the eirl in her fright jumped ot off his back in swift water and wae was swept into the rapids and tumbled about and put in gome some danger before jack could dismount and brinz bring bet ashore you have increased my debt te to you she he laid said when at lat last they were mounted acain again abat IN hat a story this Is lei I 1 it Is terribly exciting they rode on in silence feeling now the beauty of the green woods it had become 2 magic garden full of new and won derAil thing some po power er had entered them and opened their eyes the thrush filis song grew fainter in the distance the boy was first to speak 1 I think that bird must hare bad had a long flight sometimes he said I 1 why 1 I am sure that he has his heard the me music of paradise I 1 wonder it if you are as happy as I 1 am 1 I was never eo so happy she answered what a beautiful country we are in I 1 have forgotten all about the danger and the hardship and the evil til men have you ever seen any place like icv it 0 no o for a time we have been rid lag ing in fairyland 1 I know why ald said the boy chyr it Is because we are riding together it Is Js because f J see you your oh dear dearl I 1 I 1 cannot see you let us get off and walk she proposed they dismounted i did you mean that llo none nestly etly he answered she looked up at him and put her hand over her ter mouth 1 I was going to say something it wound have been roost most she remarked there theres s something tn in me that will not star unsaid love you he declared she held up her hand with amerious a beriou look in her eyes then for a moment the boy returned to the world of reality 1 I am forgive ne me I 1 ought not to have said it be stammered but you really really mean it she asked with troubled eyes 11 1 I mean that aal ani more but I 1 ought not to to hau batie said it now it t fair you have just escaped from a great danger and have got a notion that you are in debt to me and you dont know much about me anyhow she stood in his path looking up at him jack he the whispered please say it U again no it wa was apt gone tone they were etui stol in the magic garden 1 I love you and I 1 wish this ourley tourney could go to on foreve I 1 he be said 01 1 I too will wilt wait he h an AM and as long as an I 1 hav 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