4/19 My horse is nearly used up from the long drive I've had in the heat.' "'Oh, do take me to see some one in trouble!' exclaimed Madge. To see you young ladies dancing and promenading, one would think you had never heard of trouble.' "After a lovely drive through a wild valley we came to a little gray farmhouse, innocent of paint since the memory of man. The mountain rose steeply behind it with overhanging rocks, cropping out through the forest here and there. An orchard shaded the dwelling, and beyond the narrow roadway in front brawled a trout-stream. To the eastward were rough, stony fields, that sloped up, at what seemed an angle of forty-five degrees, to other wooded mountains. |