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"Don't you be It's all right with ht I'd h I most kneould be Buenos noches, nina"

He released her hand, and without once looking back strode to his horse, swung to the saddle, and rode into the night

She carried into the house with her a memory of his cheerful smile It had been et over it, and she kneould For he was no puling schoolboy, but a ame to the core

The face of anotherand debonair With the picture came wave on wave of shame He was a detected villain, and she had let hi new, soling with her first experience of sex relations

A week ago she had not yet eed fully from the chrysalis of childhood But in the Southland flowers ripen fast Adolescence steals hard upon the heels of infancy Nature was pushing her relentlessly toward a womanhood for which her splendid vitality and unschooled iuarded her The lank, shy innocence of the fawn still wrapped her, but in the heart of this frank daughter of the desert had been born a poignant shyness, a vague, delightful tree A quality which had lain banked in her nature like a fire since childhood now threw forth its first fla the primrose path of youth; at sunrise she had entered upon the world-old heritage of her sex