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She turned her head slowly and looked Grant over with an air of disparagement to the introduction "Pete thinks he's awfully witty," she remarked "It's really pathetic"

Pete bristled--as much as a fat man could bristle on so hot a day "Well, you said you wanted to flirt, and so I took it for granted you'd like--"

Good Indian looked straight past the girl, and scowled at Pete

"Pete, you're an idiot ordinarily, but when you try to be smart you're absolutely insufferable You'rethe line of dee and objectionable faht to confine his repartee to unqualified affirative monosyllable" Whereupon he pulled his hat ust, reie Howard, and stalked out, as straight of back as the Indian whose blanket he brushed, and who may have been, for all he knew, a blood relative of his

"I guess that ought to hold you for a while, Pete," Miss Georgie approved under her breath, and stared after Grant curiously "'You'rethe line of dee and objectionable familiarity' I'll bet two bits you don't knohat that means, Pete; but it hits you off exactly Who is this Mr Iot no reply to that Indeed, she did not wait for a reply Outside, things were happening--and, since Miss Georgie was dying of dullness, she hailed the disturbance as a Heaven-sent blessing, and ran to see as going on

Briefly, Grant had inadvertently stepped on a sleeping dog's paw--a dog of the rel breed which infests Indian camps, and which had attached itself to the blanketed buck inside The dog aith a yelp, saw that it was a stranger who had perpetrated the outrage, and straightway fastened its teeth in the leg of Grant's trousers Grant kicked it loose, and when it caeance and mounted his horse in haste

He did not say a word He even smiled while he uncoiled his rope, widened the loop, and, while the dog was circling warily and watching for another chance at him, dropped the loop neatly over its front quarters, and drew it tight

Saunders, a weak-lunged, bandy-legged individual, as officially a general chore man for Pete, but who did little except lie in the shade, reading novels or gossiping, awoke then, and, having a reputation for tender-heartedness, waved his arms and called aloud in the name of peace