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So he would run on until the fever had for the hour exhausted itself and he lay still ae of the man in battle with other arity

Mrs Corbett took the bulk of the nursing on her own broad fat shoulders, but during the day she was often relieved by her ot a few hours of sleep

Juanita was a sliirl not yet nineteen Even before his sickness Dick, with the instinct for deference to all wo frontiersratitude of the shy creature There was sorace The deep, soft eyes in the brown oval face were as appealing as those of a doe wounded by the hunter

She developed into a famous nurse Low-voiced and soft-footed, she would coax the delirious rew excited or to take histo the orders of the doctor

It was on the third day after Gordon's return to Corbett's that Juanita heard a whistle while she ashing dishes after supper in the kitchen Presently she slipped out of the back door and took the trail to the corral A loom to meet her

"Is it you, Pablo?"

A slender youth, lean-flanked and broad-shouldered, her visitor turned out to be His outstretched hands went forward swiftly to ht of my life?" he cried softly "Corazon mia!"

She submitted with a little reluctant protest to his caress "I have but a minute, Pablo The señora wants to walk over to Dolan's place I am to stay with the sick Ay "A thousand curses take the gringo! Why should you nurse him? Is he not an eneht frorandfather? Is he not here to throw us out--a thief, a spy, a snake in the grass?"

"No, he is not Señor Gordon is goodand kind"

"Bah! You are but a girl He gives you soft words--and so----" The jealousy in hihtly by the aro? Has he whispered soft, false lies in your ear, Juanita? If he has----"

She tried to twist free froirl cried

"It is my heart you hurt, niña Is it true that this thief has stolen the love of my Juanita?"