Flowers--and birds.

I never dreamed that there were so many up here." "Nor the world," he added.

"It is ignorant of Alaska." He was looking at her, trying to understand the inexplicable something about her.

She knew what was in his mind, because the strangely thrilling emotion that possessed him could not keep its betrayal from his eyes.

The color was fading slowly out of her cheeks; her lips grew a little tense, yet in her attitude of suspense and of waiting there was no longer a suspicion of embarrassment, no trace of fear, and no sign that a moment was at hand when her confidence was on the ebb.