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Again the silence fell

Then at the end of what seeure in front spoke

"Thar is them that thinks as how it ain't noways needful thet ye

knows," it said in slow and soleives y' thet reat corp'ration thet in tione by we

thinks is public spirited an' enterprisin', which is a mistake You

pays th' debt of said corp'ration, so they sez, an' tharfore elcomes you to our boso such lon ornary cusses as Snowie Th' cain' of you up all right an'

proper We gives you five s you in five ain the silence was broken only by

the occasional bursting crackle of a blister in the pine torches

Bennington tried to realize the situation It had all coot the joke on h And then his voice died away against the stony

iainst

the horror of a great darkness Bennington began to feel impressed in

earnest Across his mind crept doubts as to the outcome He almost

screamed aloud as some one stole up behind and dropped over his throat

the soft cold coil of a lariat Then, at a signal from the chief, the

two narled oak halfway down the slope to the gulch