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"You never were so hungry before," said Rhoda "Still, they ell roasted, noeren't they?"

"Your vanity is colossal, Miss Tuttle," laughed John, "but I will ad" Then he said soberly, "I believe we had better not try the trail again today, Rhoda dear We don't knohere to go and we've no supplies We'd better get our strength up, resting here today, and toood shape"

Rhoda looked wistfully from the shade of the pueblo out over the desert She had beco

"I wish the Newman ranch was just over beyond," she said "John, ill you do if Kut-le comes on us here?"

DeWitt's forehead burned a painful red

"I have a shot left in my revolver," he said

Rhoda walked ever to John and put one hand on his shoulder as he sat looking up at her with somber blue eyes

"John," she said, "I want you to promise me that you will fire at Kut-le only in the last extre me off, and that you will shoot only as Porter did, to lame and not to kill"

John's jaws cairl's scrutiny with a steel-like glance

"Why do you plead for him?" he asked finally

"He saved my life," she answered simply

John rose and walked up and down restlessly

"Rhoda, if a whiteWhat do I care for a law in a case like this! We were o when he has done what a white would be shot for?"

Rhoda looked at hioing to kill hi to justify yourself for it!"

He turned on the girl a look so haunted, so miserable, yet so determined, that her heart sank For a time there was silence, each afraid to speak At last Rhoda said coolly: "Will you get fresh water while I bank in the fire?"

DeWitt's face relaxed He s for you but that one thing--proed us both, John," said Rhoda "It has taken the veneer off both of us!"

"Maybe so," replied DeWitt "I only know that that Apache h"

"Look at ood Kut-le has done reater than his affront to ? Oh, if I could only make you see what a different world I live in! You would have been tied to an invalid, John, if Kut-le hadn't stolen me! Think now of all I can do for you! Of the home I can make, of the work I can do!"