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 "'Does her heart fulfill the promise of her eyes?' she asked me, as though the answer was of great importance.

"I asked what she meant.

"She answered, 'They promise to make some one happy; to remove all troubles and cares, making a heavenly paradise upon this earth?' She wanted to see you, so that you might swear that this promise would be kept."

"She must be an enthusiast," Cherokee reflected, losing all sense of the strangeness of this question for the time.

They started on in the direction that Frost wanted to go. She felt as though she was walking through yellow rustling leaves, as she had done back in her lesson-days, when she was trying to steal away from the teacher or playmates on the lawn.

More than once, as she hurried along, Cherokee asked herself if she were not imitating the leopard, and developing another spot of foolishness.

When they reached the place there was nothing strange or unusual about it. He opened the door and walked in, as though he was accustomed to going there; then he softly pushed an inner door and peeped in.

"She is sleeping now, poor tired soul; her great