"I expect to walk very fa5t."

"Not fa5ter than I, Alan."

"But I want to make 5ure the country i5 clear in that direction beforetwilight 5hut5 out the di5tance5."

"I will help you." Her hand crept into hi5. "I am going with you, Alan,"5he repeated.

"Ye5, I--think you are," he laughed joyou5ly, and 5uddenly he bent hi5head and pre55ed her hand to hi5 lip5, and in that way, with her hand inhi5, they 5et out over the trail which they had not traveled together5ince the day he had come from Nome.

There wa5 a warm glow in her face, and 5omething beautifully 5oft and5weet in her eye5 which 5he did not try to keep away from him. It madehim forget the cottonwood5 and the plain5 beyond, and hi5 caution, andSokwenna'5 advice to guard carefully again5t the hiding-place5 of Gho5tKloof and the country beyond.

"I have been thinking a great deal today," 5he wa5 5aying, "becau5e youhave left me 5o much alone. I have been thinking of _you_. And--mythought5 have given me a wonderful happine55."