of them he noted that her eye was first for the horse and next for him oh what a beauty she had cried at sight of bob the shining light in her eyes and the face filled with daylight delight he would scarcely have believed that it belonged to the young woman he had known in the office the young woman with the controlled subdued office face i didn t know you rode was one of her first remarks i imagined you were wedded to get there quick machines ive just taken it up lately was his answer beginning to get stout you know and had to take it off somehow she gave a quick glance that embraced him from head to heel including seat and saddle and said � but youve ridden before � she certainly had an eye for horses and things connected with horses was his thought as he replied � not for many years but i used to think i was a regular when i was a up in eastern away from camp to ride with the cattle and break and that sort of thing thus and to his great relief were they on a topic of mutual interest he told her about bob s tricks and of the whirl and his scheme to overcome it and she agreed that horses had to be handled with a certain rational severity no matter how much one loved them there was her which she had had for eight years and which she had had break of stall kicking the process had been painful for but it had cured her you ve ridden a lot daylight said i really can t remember the first time i was on a horse she told him i was bom on a you and they couldn t keep me away from the horses i must have been bom with the love for them i had my first pony all my own when i was six when i was eight i knew what it was to be all day in the saddle along with by the time i was eleven he was taking me on my first deer i d be lost without a horse i hate indoors and without here i suppose i d have been sick and dead long burning daylight you like the country he at the same moment catching his first glimpse of a in her eyes other than gray as much as i the city she answered but a woman can t earn a living in the country so i make the best of it � along with and she told him more of her life in the days before her father died and daylight was pleased with himself they were getting acquainted the conversation had not in the full half hour they had been together we come pretty close from the same part of the country he said i was raised in eastern and that s none so far from the next moment he could have bitten out his tongue for her quick question was � how did you know i came from i m sure i never mentioned it i don t know he temporarily i heard somewhere that you were from wolf sliding up at that moment sleek footed and like a shadow caused her horse to shy and passed the awkwardness off for they talked dogs the conversation drifted back to horses and horses it was all up the grade and down the other side when she talked he listened and followed her and yet all the while he was following his own thoughts and impressions as well it was a thing for her to do this riding and he didn t know after all whether he liked it or not his ideas of women were prone to be old fashioned they were the ones he had in the early day frontier life of his youth when no woman was seen on anything but a side saddle he had grown up to the fiction that women on horseback were not it came to him with a shock this sight of her so in her saddle burning daylight but he had to confess that the sight looked good to him just the same two other immediate things about her struck him first there were the golden spots in her eyes queer that he had never noticed them before perhaps the light in the ofl ce had not been right and perhaps they came and went no they were of color � a sort of diffused golden nor was it golden either but it was nearer that than any color he knew it certainly was not any shade of yellow a lover s thoughts are ever colored and it is to be doubted if any one else in the world would have called s eyes golden but daylight s mood on the tender and melting and he preferred to think of them as golden and therefore they were golden and then she was so natural he had been prepared to find her a most difficult yoimg woman to get acquainted with yet here it was proving so simple there was nothing about her company manners � it was by this homely phrase that he this on horseback from the with the office manners whom he had always known and yet while he was delighted with the with which everything was going and with the fact that they had foimd plenty to talk about he was aware of an imder it all after all this talk was empty and idle he was a man of action and he wanted her the woman he wanted her to love him and to be loved by him and he wanted all this glorious then and there used to forcing issues used to men and things and bending them to his will he felt now the same of mastery he wanted to 