"It seems very pleasant, and I am tired of riding." "All right, so long," said Sam.

"Don't you forgit what I told you about that Nora girl." Franklin passed on in the direction which had been pointed out to him, looking about him at the strange, new country, in which he felt the proprietorship of early discovery.

He drew in deep breaths of an air delightfully fresh, squaring his shoulders and throwing up his head instinctively as he strode forward.

The sky was faultlessly clear.

The prospect all about him, devoid as it was of variety, was none the less abundantly filling to the eye.