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Stores opened, but only for a desultory pretense of business Horsemen

led their mounts away from the more public racks, and tethered them to

back fences andbranches in the shelter of the river banks,

where stray bullets would not find theray when Samson South and

Captain Callomb had passed the Miller cabin Callomb had ridden slowly

on around the turn of the road, and waited a quarter of a mile away He

was to coh Sheriff should call

upon him Samson went in and knocked, and instantly to the cabin door

caure She put both arms about him,

and her eyes, as she looked into his face, were terrified, but tearless

"I' to be

praying all this day"

"Sally," he said, softly, "I' back to you--but, if I don't"--

he held her very close--"Uncle Spicer haswhen roads will take it out, and every ridge

will gloith coke furnaces That farht"

"Don't!" she cried, with a sudden gasp "Don't talk like that"