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"Evidently not So you sacrifice me for him"

"You think I wasn't justified?"

"You'll have to settle that with your conscience," he said coldly "Don't think I would have been justified in your place"

"You would have let hiainst odds?"

"Does that alter the fact that he is a thief?" Verinder derily

"It alters ht to alter yours He did a great service to the wo to you?"

"The felloas playing off his own bat, wasn't he? I don't see I owe hi," the mine owner sulkily answered "Truth is, I' and short of him I don't deny he's a well-plucked daredevil What of it? This town is full of the to prison I intended only to get back some of the ore he and his friends have stolen from me"

"I didn't know that"

"Would it have made any difference if you had?"

She considered "I'ed from the hotel and bore down upon them

"All ready, Moya," cried India

"Ready here" Moya knew that it must be plain to both Captain Kilreement of some sort Characteristically, she took the bull by the horns "Mr Verinder and I are through quarreling At least I'h

"Didn't know I'd been quarreling, Miss Dwight," Verinder replied stiffly

"You haven't I've been doing it all" She turned lightly to her betrothed "They didn't send up the pinto, Ned Hope he hasn't really gone lame"

Verinder had been put out of the picture He turned and walked into the lobby of the hotel, suddenly resolved to ht had interfered with his plans He would show that young lady whether she could treat hi she deserved

Lady Farquhar listened with a conte to the code that awoman's chaperon Yet she sympathized with him even while she defended Moya No doubt if Captain Kilmeny had been at hand his fiancée would have taken the matter to him for decision In his absence she had probably felt that it was incumbent on her to save his cousin from trouble