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Her eyes gloith excitement "Please let me come," she said

"You don't kno ued and expostulated and entreated He kneell enough

there was a good deal of risk in the o back But she was deterument ended in the only possible manner--she went She promised

to do exactly what she was told, to keep out of the way if so

ordered, and, above all, not to speak except when spoken to

So off they went through the scrub on the track of the sheep, plain

as print to the young bushh invisible to his companion

They rode at a walk for the ain, when they could see for a good distance ahead, they

let the horses canter; Hugh riding in front, she, like a daths behind, and thoroughly

enjoying the adventure

Of course she could not keep silence long, and after a while she

drew alongside, and whispered, "Do you think we shall catch the; there has been a dog

after these sheep--see, there's his track," pointing to foot-prints

plainly marked in wet sand--"but no track of man or horse to be

seen By Jove, look there!"