WAR
XI
OF THE CHANGE WHICH DAVE BROUGHT
DAVE'S coming was the beginning of a great change all around. He and Evelyn never noticed it. I had heard tell, before, that love was the most selfish thing on earth, and didn't believe it. But I could see it now, right before my eyes. Evelyn took to the riding and fishing and swimming, just as hard as Dave said she would. At last she could do them all as well as Dave himself—at least, so he said. And it did for Evelyn all that Dave had said it would. She got strong and graceful as a deer, and it was a sight, I can tell you, to see them tearing up the Red Rock Road, early in the morning, while the way was still too damp for dust, she on Dave's black, and he on another black he'd traded in to match her. I never saw such riding anywhere. I use' to
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