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CHAPTER NII. A MOUNTAIN RIDE. Sucn a delightful week followed, The weather was perfect. It seemed as if there never had been such beautiful September dayz, ‘crown jewels of the year,” Ruby called then, for scarecly a cloud obscured the sky during all that delectable time, and every morning the young gir] was up with the lark to sce the | sun rise--a sight which she had previously | very rarely enjoyed. ‘The witches have cast their beauty- spell over her since she came up hee; though what for is more’n T can tell, for she was as sweet as an angel before,” Farmer Ruggles remarked to his wife, one morning, as Ruby tiipped into the dining- room, absolutely bewildering in her dainty white wrapper with a bunch of cardinal flowers—Walter’s morning gift—fastened | in her belt. Robert Gordon overheard theremark, and smiled wisely at the sentiment of the good Math He lind not beea blind during the few days of their visit there. He hac discoverec Walter's growing attachment for his beauti- ful sister, and he hai begun to ‘realise also that she was happier in his society than she had ever been before. He liked the young man. He had learnt considerable regavding his history from Mr Ruggles, and he admired his energy and in- dependence as wellas his honour and manli- ness. He resolved that if Ruby should learn to love this noble young man, he svould never lay a straw in the way of her happiness, oven though he possessed no- thing but his honest heart and good right hand to offer her. — comildbaskss.com - 8 ies 7, ro