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The Man of the Forest

CHAPTER VI
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An' when he's thrown Anson off the scent, then he'll circle down to Pine." "Mr.Dale, do you think you'll get us there safely--and soon ?" asked Helen, wistfully.
"I won't promise soon, but I promise safe.

An' I don't like bein' called Mister," he replied.
"Are we ever going to eat ?" inquired Bo, demurely.
At this query Roy Beeman turned with a laugh to look at Bo.

Helen saw his face fully in the light, and it was thin and hard, darkly bronzed, with eyes like those of a hawk, and with square chin and lean jaws showing scant, light beard.
"We shore are," he replied.

"Soon as we reach the timber.

Thet won't be long." "Reckon we can rustle some an' then take a good rest," said Dale, and he urged his horse into a jog-trot.
During a steady trot for a long hour, Helen's roving eyes were everywhere, taking note of the things from near to far--the scant sage that soon gave place to as scanty a grass, and the dark blots that proved to be dwarf cedars, and the ravines opening out as if by magic from what had appeared level ground, to wind away widening between gray stone walls, and farther on, patches of lonely pine-trees, two and three together, and then a straggling clump of yellow aspens, and up beyond the fringed border of forest, growing nearer all the while, the black sweeping benches rising to the noble dome of the dominant mountain of the range.
No birds or animals were seen in that long ride up toward the timber, which fact seemed strange to Helen.


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