The foreman, Harrison, flushed and startled by this apparition of inaccessible beauty at his threshold, came eagerly forward.

"I shall not trouble you now, Mr.Har-r-r-rison," she said, with a polite exaggeration of the consonants; "but some day I shall ride over here, and ask you to show me your wonderful machines." She smiled, and turned back to seek her carriage.

But before she had gone many yards she found that she had completely lost it in the intervening billows of grain.

She stopped, with an impatient little Spanish ejaculation.

The next moment the stalks of wheat parted before her and a figure emerged.