"No," he answered quietly. "I just came this way to say good-by; I
stopped for a few minutes with Stan at the office. He said I would find
you here."
"But where are you going?" she asked.
Smiling he waved his hand toward the mountain ridge above. "Just over
the sky line, Helen."
"But, Larry, you will come again? You won't let us lose you altogether?"
"Perhaps--some day," he said.
"And who is that with you?"
"Just a friend who cares to go with me. Stan will tell you."
"Oh, Larry, Larry! What a man you are!" she cried proudly, as he stood
before her holding out his hand.
"If you think so, Helen, I am glad," he answered, and turned away.
So she watched him go. Sitting there at home, she watched him ride up
the winding road. Now he was in full view on some rocky shoulder of the
mountain--now some turn carried him behind a rocky point--again she
glimpsed him through the trees--again he was lost to her in the shadows.
At last, for a moment, he stood out boldly against the wide-arched
sky--and then he had passed from sight--over the sky line, as he had
said.
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