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"Now, you fellows, think that over," he said "I intend to post a

guard until I find out whether you are going to prove yourselves fools

or ain those of you who start the trouble can

expect to get hurt, and pay the piper That's all"

In front of the hotel porch heout

"What does the doctor say about Hampton?"

"A very bad wound, sir, but not necessarily fatal; he has regained

consciousness"

"Has Miss Gillis arrived?"

"I don't know, sir; there's a young woman cryin' in the parlor"

The lieutenant leaped up the steps and entered the house But it was

Miss Spencer, not Naida, who sprang to her feet

"Oh, Lieutenant Brant; can this be truly you! How perfectly awful you

look! Do you know if Mr Ha to die? I came here

just to find out about hi"