how her fondness for her daughter's benefactor. Sadie promised
to write to Helen frequently and the two girls--so much alike in some
ways, yet as far apart as the poles in others--bade each other an
affectionate farewell.

The next day Helen Morrell and her two friends, Dud and Jess Stone, were
headed West. That second trip across the continent was a very different
journey for Helen than the first had been.

She and Jess Stone had become the best of friends. And as the months slid
by the two girls--Helen, a product of the West, and Jessie, a product of
the great Eastern city--became dearer and dearer companions.

As for Dud--of course he was always hanging around. His sister sometimes
wondered--and that audibly--how he found time for business, he was so
frequently at Sunset Ranch. This was only said, however, in wicked
enjoyment of his discomfiture--and of Helen's blushes.

For by that time it was an understood thing about Sunset Ranch that in
time Dud was going to have the right to call its mistress "Snuggy" for all
the years of her life--just as her father had. And Helen, contemplating
this possibility, did not seem to mind.

THE END

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SOMETHING ABOUT
AMY BELL MARLOWE
AND HER BOOKS FOR GIRLS

In these days, when the printing presses are turning out so many books for
girls that are good, bad and indifferent, it is refreshing to come upon
the works of such a gifted authoress as Miss Amy Bell Marlowe, who is now
under contract to write exclusively for Messrs. Grosset & Dunlap.

In many ways Miss Marlowe's books may be compared with those of Miss
Alcott and Mrs. Meade, but all are thoroughly modern and wholly American
in scene and action. Her plots, while never improbable, are exceedingly
clever, and her girlish characters are as natural as they are
interesting.

On the following pages will be found a list of Miss Marlowe's books. Every
girl in our land ought to read these fresh and wholesome tales. They are
to be found at all booksellers. Each volume is handsomely illustrated and
bound in cloth, stamped in colors. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New
York. A free catalogue of Miss Marlowe's books may be had for the asking.

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THE OLDEST OF FOUR

"I don't see any way out!"

It was Natalie's mother who said that, after the awful news had been
received that Mr. Raym