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opinion of others, while from every other standpoint you feel perfectly

safe But I 've had to suffer for your crime, Murphy, suffer for

fifteen years, ten of them behind stone walls; and there are others who

have suffered with me It has cost me love, home, all that a man holds

dear I 've borne this punishment for you, paid the penalty of your

act to the full satisfaction of the law The very least you can do in

ordinary decency is to speak the truth now It will not hurt you, but

it will lift , treacherously shifting under the thatch of

his heavy brows; he was like an old rat seeking for any hole of refuge

"Well--o on--with ye Kin I sit up? I

' tired--lyin' yere"

"Unbuckle your belt, and throw that over first"

"I'm damned--if I will Not--in no Injun--country"

"I know it's tough," retorted Ha coolness, his

revolver's ot to be

done I know you far too well to take chances on your gun So

unlimber"