[The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Man of the Forest CHAPTER IX 6/52
She was reeling in her saddle, half blind and sick, when Roy called out cheerily that they were almost there. Whatever his idea was, to Helen it seemed many miles that she followed him farther, out of the heavy-timbered forest down upon slopes of low spruce, like evergreen, which descended sharply to another level, where dark, shallow streams flowed gently and the solemn stillness held a low murmur of falling water, and at last the wood ended upon a wonderful park full of a thick, rich, golden light of fast-fading sunset. "Smell the smoke," said Roy.
"By Solomon! if Milt ain't here ahead of me!" He rode on.
Helen's weary gaze took in the round senaca, the circling black slopes, leading up to craggy rims all gold and red in the last flare of the sun; then all the spirit left in her flashed up in thrilling wonder at this exquisite, wild, and colorful spot. Horses were grazing out in the long grass and there were deer grazing with them.
Roy led round a corner of the fringed, bordering woodland, and there, under lofty trees, shone a camp-fire.
Huge gray rocks loomed beyond, and then cliffs rose step by step to a notch in the mountain wall, over which poured a thin, lacy waterfall.
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