e comfortable where she was
than carried down the mountainside, where there was no well defined
path. One had to seek the easiest way between the trees.

For her own part Tory concluded that she might as well attempt to
sleep for as long as her fire could be trusted to continue burning.

The pine wood was filled with brush and the night so bright she could
find without difficulty what she was seeking.

Returning, Tory smothered over the fire so that it might burn for some
time without replenishing. She then lay down beside Kara.

Toward morning she must have dreamed. She woke with the impression
that a number of years had passed, or what seemed a long passage of
time, and in the interval she and Kara had been searching the world
over for each other and unable to meet.

Glad she was to reach over and touch her companion, who scarcely had
stirred.

Already the sky was streaked with light, palest rose and blue.

Strengthened and refreshed, Tory set to work again. The summer morning
was exquisite, the odor of the pine trees never so fragrant, nor the
air so delicious.

Failing in her signals for help the evening before, she now determined
to make a more strenuous effort. Intending to return to camp before
dusk, she and Kara had neglected to bring a flashlight or a lantern
which might have proved more effective.

With the coming of darkness she had not relied on solid columns of
black smoke being seen at any distance. Now on a farther ridge of the
hill she arranged two such smoke columns, remembering that two steady
smokes side by side mean "I am lost, come and help me."

If she failed a second time, she determined to go down the hill until
she was able to secure aid. But this meant leaving Kara alone, which
even for a short time she did not wish to do.

The waiting was the difficult task. To her own embarrassment Tory
realized that she was thinking more of her own hunger than of Kara's
need as the minutes wore on and no one arrived. Fortunately she had
saved a small quantity of coffee in their thermos bottle the day
before. This must be for Kara when she finally awakened.

There was nothing to occupy one save to rise now and then and stir the
hot ashes to a fresh blaze, covering them afterwards with the green
wood of the small beeches that straggled up the hill away from the
shadow of the pines.

The noise of footsteps up the mountainside actually failed to arouse
Tory until they were not far away.

She fi