Helen's quick eye detected a cleanliness and thoroughness she had scarcely expected to find in the camp cooking of men of the wilds.

Moreover, the fare was good.

She ate heartily, and as for Bo's appetite, she was inclined to be as much ashamed of that as amused at it.

The young men were all eyes, assiduous in their service to the girls, but speaking seldom.

It was not lost upon Helen how Dale's gray gaze went often down across the open country.