too was seeing with inner vision got it he cried suddenly t ai fc s� b d ig daylight it s as simple as rolling off a log all i ve got to do is hit on the nose and hit him hard then he explained to the startled and became a good listener again though he could not refrain now and again from making audible of satisfaction and delight that was the scheme bob always whirled to the right very well he would double the in his hand and the instant of the whirl that doubled rap bob on the nose the horse didn t live after it had once learned the lesson that would whirl in the face of the doubled more keenly than ever during that week in the did daylight realize that he had no social nor even with the situation was such that he could not ask her the simple question whether or not she was going riding next it was a hardship of a new sort this being the employer of a pretty girl he looked at her often when the routine work of the day was going on the question he could not ask her at the of speech � was she going riding next sunday and as he looked he wondered how old she was and what love passages she had had must have had with those college with whom according to she and danced his mind was very full of her those six days between the sundays and one thing he came to know thoroughly well he wanted her and so much did he want her that his old timidity of the apron string was put to he who had nm away from women most of his life had now grown so courageous as to pursue some sunday sooner or later he would meet her outside the office somewhere in the hills and then if they did not get acquainted it would be because she did not care to get acquainted thus he foimd another card in the hand the mad god had dealt him how important that card was to become he did not dream yet he decided that it was a pretty good card daylight in turn he doubted maybe it was a trick of luck to bring calamity and disaster upon him suppose wouldn t have him and suppose he went on loving her more and more harder and harder all his old terrors of love revived he remembered the disastrous love affairs of men and women he had known in the past there was old s daughter who had been madly in love with the rich owner and in turn not loving at all but madly loving colonel s wife and down the with her and colonel himself madly loving his own wife and lighting out in pursuit of the couple and what had been the certainly s love had been and tragic and so had the love of the other three down below colonel and had fought it out had been killed a bullet through the colonel s had so weakened hun that he died of the spring and the colonel s wife had no one left alive on earth to love and then there was drowning herself in the ice because of some man on the other side of the world and him daylight because he had happened along and pulled her out of tiie ice and back to life and the virgin the old memories frightened him if this love him good and hard and if wouldn t have him it might be almost as bad as being out of all he had by and had his desire for been less he might well have been frightened out of all thought of her as it was he f consolation in the thought that some love affairs did come out right and for all he knew maybe luck had the cards for him to win some men were bom lucky lived lucky all their days and died lucky perhaps too he was such a man a bom luck who could not lo daylight sunday came and bob out in the hills behaved like an angel his goodness at times was of the spirited order but otherwise he was a lamb daylight with doubled ready in his right hand ached for a whirl just one whirl which bob with an excellence of conduct that was refused to perform but no did daylight encounter he vainly about among the hill roads and in the afternoon took the steep grade over the divide of the second range and dropped into valley just after passing the foot of the descent he heard the beats of a horse it was from ahead and coming toward him what if it were he turned bob around and started to return at a walk if it were he was bom to luck he decided for the meeting couldn t have occurred imder better here they were both going in the same direction and the would bring her up to him just where the stiff grade would compel a walk there would be nothing else for her to do than ride with him to the top of the divide and once there the equally stiff descent on the other side would compel more walking the came nearer but he faced straight ahead he heard the horse behind check to a walk then he glanced over his shoulder it was the recognition was quick and with her accompanied by surprise what more natural thing than that partly turning his horse he should wait till she caught up with him and that when abreast they should continue abreast on up the grade he could have sighed with relief the thing was accomplished and so easily greetings had been exchanged here they were side by side and going in the same direction with miles and miles ahead 