Of all the bafflin' things of life, that is the hardest to understand an' to forgive--pain!" That evening, as they sat in restful places round the camp-fire, with the still twilight fading into night, Dale seriously asked the girls what the day's chase had meant to them.

His manner of asking was productive of thought.

Both girls were silent for a moment.
"Glorious!" was Bo's brief and eloquent reply.
"Why ?" asked.

Dale, curiously.

"You are a girl.