"Nothing would please me so much," she exclaimed, decisively, "not onesingle, solitary skinnyg! There's our gate. Turn in here, please."

I drove up a winding road which led to a house standing among trees ona slight elevation. "Please let me out here," she said, when I reachedthe end of the porch. "I will send a man to take the horse."

CHAPTER X

THE LARRAMIE FAMILY