It was the very cream of the U.R.U.; and could the Senator have read the feelings of the dozen leading men in the run, he would have owned that they were for the time satisfied with their amusement.

Could he have read Kate Masters' feelings he would have had to own that she was in an earthly Paradise.

When the pony paused at the big brook, brought his four legs steadily down on the brink as though he were going to bathe, then with a bend of his back leaped to the other side, dropping his hind legs in and instantly recovering them, and when she saw that Larry had waited just a moment for her, watching to see what might be her fate, she was in heaven.

"Wasn't it a big one, Larry ?" she asked in her triumph.

"He did go in behind!" "Those cats of things always do it somehow," Larry replied darting forward again and keeping the Major well in his eye.