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"And I thought all the tihed, and on the heels of itway"

"I'll kno that the way to please you is not to do what you want irls, don't you?" she reed with her derision

Keller spoke absently, considering whether this ht be the propitious ether in an adventure well concluded Both were thinking of what Dixon had said It seeht ride back through the warht with this newof their fingers, when he gave her the bridle, that he spoke

"I've got to say it, Miss Phyllis I've got to knohere I stand"

She understood him of course The touch of their eyes had waran But "Stand how?" she repeated feebly

"With you I love you! We both know that What about you? Could you care for me? Do you?"

Her shy, deep eyes met his fairly "I don't know Sometimes I think I do, and then sometimes I think I don't--that way"

The touch of affection that made his face occasionally tender as a woman's, lit his warm smile

"Couldn't you make that first sometimes always, don't you reckon, Phyllis?"

"Ah! If I knew! But I don't--truly, I don't I--I want to care," she confessed, with divine shyness

"That's good listening Couldn't you go ahead on those times you do, honey?"

"No!" She drew back froive me time I'm--I'm not sure--I'm not at all sure I can't explain, but----"

"Can't decide between hten her objection

Then, in a flash, he knew that by accident he had hit the truth The startled look of doubt in her eyes told him Perhaps she had not known it herself before, but his words had clarified her --one not to be thrust aside easily

Phyllis' first impulse was to be alone She turned her face away and busied herself with a stirrup leather

"Don't say anything oose! I don't know--yet Won't you wait and--forget it till--say, till next week?"

He proet it As they rode home, he made cheerful talk on many subjects; but the one in both their minds was that which had been banned Every silence was full charged with it Its suppression ran like quicksilver through every spoken sentence