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The clank of his heavy spurs, as he entered the sleeping apartment of the haciendado, awoke the latter who on opening his eyes and seeing his nocturnal visitor in full riding-costume, cried out: "What! is it time to set forth upon the chase? I did not know the hour was so late!"

Norton was a decidedly graceful and pretty woman. The rounded curves of her shapely figure were set off to advantage by her riding-costume. Her eyes were especially attractive, greenish-grey eyes fringed by long black lashes under curved dark brows contrasting with the warm auburn tint of the hair that showed under her sunhat. Her complexion was dazzlingly fair.

It is discouraging to contemplate the smug complacency, whether it be due to ignorance or apathy, which permits aliens to reside in our midst and set up agencies for our destruction and their benefit. If I Why, you're in riding-costume, aren't you?" "You will never be popular with women if you do not mend your ways," she informed him, with a little grimace of disapproval.

I must have ridden too hard. I'll be all right in a minute." He leaned his head against a tree and closed his eyes. Sandy eyed him curiously, taking in all the details of his riding-costume down to the short whip with the silver mounting. "I say, Ricks," he called to his companion, who was inspecting the horse, "can't we do somethin' for him?" Ricks reluctantly produced the short bottle.

Engle, and had just secretly purchased a fresh outfit consisting of a silver-mounted Spanish bit, a new pair of white and unspeakably shaggy, draggy chaps, a wide hat with a band of snake hide, and boots that were the final whisper in high-heeled discomfort. Florrie disappeared into her room to make her own little riding-costume as irresistible as possible.

For an hour they discussed the need of this and that article, selected those things most needful, and then packed them in Madeline's duffle-bags. That done, they decided to lie down, fully dressed as they were in riding-costume, and sleep, or at least rest, the little remaining time left before the call to saddle.

He kindly brought his wife's riding-costume for my trip to Kilauea. The Rev. Titus Coan, one of the first and most successful missionaries to Hawaii, also called.

He was in riding-costume and was covered with dirt. His eyes, rimmed with dust, looked out of a face that was pale beneath the sunburn. He threw himself into a chair with an exclamation of fatigue. "Had any dinner?" asked his father. Wanda looked at her brother's face, and changed color herself.

And the look in his eyes, as he glanced at the woman, meant vastly more. Yes, this man had learned infinitely much. From a big, bamboo Chinese chair the woman was watching him. Her eyes were musing, reminiscent. Her riding-costume well became her; and by the flush on her cheek you might have guessed they had both just come in from a long gallop together.

Then his brain and his blood beat wildly. He saw a slender girl in riding-costume, lithe and strong, with the free step of one used to the open. It was this form, this step that struck Wade. "My God! how like Lucy!" he whispered, and he tried to pierce the distance to see her face. It gleamed in the sunshine. Her fair hair waved in the wind. She was coming, but so slowly!