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"We won't try; we'll just take it to theive them half, like the other tenants"

"But the swamp is mortal thick and hard to clear"

"We can do it"

Zora had sat still, listening; but now, suddenly, she leapt to her feet

"Coo"--she glanced at hi, they hurried on

Elspeth stood in the path that wound down to the cottage, and without a word Zora dropped the basket at her feet She turned back; but Bles, struck by a thought, paused The old wos, red hanging lips, and wicked eyes She leered at theround

"Aunt Elspeth," he began, "Zora and I are going to plant and tend so--just the very best cotton we can find--and I heard"--he hesitated,--"I heard you had soot the seed--I'se got it--wonder seed, soid the three spells of Obi in the old land ten tousand o But you couldn't plant it," with a sudden shrillness, "it would kill you"

"But--" Bles tried to object, but she waved hi it--pet it, and we'll see e'll see" And she disappeared

Zora was not sure that it had been wise to tell their secret

"I was going to steal the seed," she said "I knohere it is, and I don't fear conjure"

"You ravely

"Why?" Zora quickly asked

But before he answered, they both forgot; for their faces were turned toward the wonder of the swah the sliht and tossed back the glow in darker, duller cri cries leapt to and fro; silent footsteps crept hither and yonder; and the girl's eyes gleamed with a wild new joy

"The drea ahead, she danced along the shadowed path He hastened after her, but she flew fast and faster; he followed, laughing, calling, pleading He saw her twinkling liht; but now the fire was the fire of the world Her gars about the perfect ure Her heavy hair had burst its fastenings and lay in stiffened, stragglingreluctantly to the breeze, like curled s rose and fell and trembled, till his head whirled He paused uncertainly at a parting of the paths, crying: "Zora! Zora!" as for some lost soul "Zora! Zora!" echoed the cry, faintly