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"Whew!" Mr Cone's lips puckered in a whistle

His astonishment inspired Miss Gaskett to continue: "Yes, indeed! And once when I was out walking ever so far from everybody I ht if I did so it htened, I picked up a stick, and just then----"

Seeing that Mr Cone's gaze wandered, Miss Gaskett paused to learn the cause of it She flushed as she found that Mrs Budlong, with a s to the recital

"I'll tell you the rest when you are not so busy," Miss Mattie said, taking her key fro declared that her pleasure equalled his ohen Mr Cone expressed his delight at seeing her, and there was no thought on the minds of either as to the hotel rules she had violated or the food she had carried away from the table in the front of her blouse and her reticule

"You are looking in splendid health, Mrs Budlong," he asserted, quite as if that lady ever had looked otherwise

"Yes, the change benefited athered from the plaintive note in her voice that prior to her trip she had been an invalid

"You, too, found the Western country interesting?"

"Oh, very! At heart, Mr Cone, I am a Child of Nature, and the pri hesitated and see made her decision she asked in an undertone: "I can trust you?"

"Absolutely," replied Mr Cone with emphasis, which inti from him any secret she chose to deposit

"I had a very peculiar experience in the Yellowstone I should never mention it, if you were not ether shocking"

Mr Cone's eyes sparkled

"Purely in a spirit of adventure, I took a bath in a beaver dam It was in a secluded spot, and so well protected that I went in--er--I did not wearsuit The birds twittered The arched trees reen canopy above me The sunshine sparkled on the placid bosoentle breeze, warm, sweet-scented, caressed ed in--the tehtful I felt like a ny, as I swa The botto on the surface, otherwise it was ideal