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"Yes," said Billy; "sahty well-behaved one, too Why?"

"It's hers," said Bridge

"An' she wants it back?"

"She didn't say so; but I'd like to get it to her soested Billy

"But I can't go back," said Bridge; "it was Grayson, the foreman, who made it so hot for me I had to leave He tried to arrest me and send me to Villa"

"What for?" asked Billy

"He didn't like e wouldn't say that his relations with Billy had brought him into trouble

"Oh, well, I'll take it back myself then, and at the saular fellow you are, and punch in the foreo there They know you now It was some of El Orobo's men you shot up day before yesterday when you took their steers fronized the pony, and one of theht of the robbery They would be sure to get you, Billy"

Shortly the two ca slowly toward their iven up the chase, fearing that they reatly superior force, and had returned to Cuivaca

It was nearly e and Billy threw theed

"Well, well," ie's found his Penelope," and fell asleep