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Why -- yes," stated Helen, really feebly. She didn't in any respect, while Bo talked like that. "You're going to fall in love with that wild hunter," declared Bo in a voice that rang like a bell. Helen used to be not just surprised, yet enraged. She stuck her breath preparatory to giving this incorrigible sister a section of her brain. Bo went lightly on. "I can think it in my bones. " "Bo, you are a little idiot -- a sentimental, romancing, gushy little idiot! " retorted Helen. "All you appear to carry on your head is a few rot approximately love. to listen to you speak one may imagine there is not anything else on the earth yet love. " Bo's eyes have been shiny, sensible, affectionate, and guffawing as she bent their regular gaze upon Helen. "Nell, that is simply it. there's not anything else! " bankruptcy X The evening of sleep used to be so brief that it was once tricky for Helen to think that hours had handed. Bo seemed livelier this morning, with much less grievance of aches. "Nell, you have colour! " exclaimed Bo. "And your eyes are vivid. is not the morning completely wonderful? . . . could not you get under the influence of alcohol on that air? I odor vegetation. And oh! i am hungry! " "Bo, our host will quickly have desire of his looking skills in the event that your urge for food holds," acknowledged Helen, as she attempted to maintain her hair out of her eyes whereas she laced her boots. "Look! there is a enormous puppy -- a hound. " Helen appeared as Bo directed, and observed a hound of surprisingly huge proportions, black and tan in colour, with lengthy, drooping ears. interestingly he trotted closer to the door in their hut after which stopped to stare upon them. His head was once noble, his eyes shone darkish and unhappy. He appeared neither pleasant nor unfriendly. "Hello, doggie! Come correct in -- we can't harm you," known as Bo, yet with no enthusiasm. This made Helen giggle. "Bo, you are easily delicious," she acknowledged. "You're frightened of that puppy. " "Sure. wonder whether he is Dale's. after all he has to be. " shortly the hound trotted away out of sight. while the women offered themselves on the camp-fire they espied their curious dogs customer mendacity down. His ears have been goodbye that half them lay at the flooring. "I despatched Pedro over to wake you women up," stated Dale, after greeting them. "Did he scare you? " "Pedro. So that is his identify. No, he did not precisely scare me. He did Nell, even though. She's an lousy tenderfoot," spoke back Bo. "He's a splendid-looking dog," acknowledged Helen, ignoring her sister's sally. "I love canines. Will he make associates? " "He's shy an' wild. you spot, while I go away camp he will not loaf around. He an' Tom are jealous of one another. I had a pack of hounds an' misplaced all yet Pedro as a result of Tom. i feel you can also make acquaintances with Pedro. attempt it. " Whereupon Helen made overtures to Pedro, and never entirely in useless. The puppy was once matured, of virtually stern aloofness, and glaringly no longer used to humans. His deep, wine-dark eyes appeared to seek Helen's soul. They have been sincere and clever, with an odd disappointment. "He seems intelligent," saw Helen, as she smoothed the lengthy, darkish ears. "That hound is nigh human," replied Dale. "Come, an' once you consume i'm going to let you know approximately Pedro. " Dale had gotten the hound as a puppy from a Mexican sheep-herder who claimed he used to be half California bloodhound.