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"There's no use asking the Injuns to go on the warpath," Gene announced disgustedly, coathered, waiting for the ringing tattoo upon the iron triangle just outside the back door which would be the supper summons "They're too lazy to take the trouble--and, besides, they're scared of dad I was talking to Sleeping Turtle just now--met him down there past the Point o' Rocks"

"What's theon the warpath ourselves? We don't need the Injuns As long as she knows they're hanging around close, it's all the saet mum off the ranch--"

"If we could kidnap her--say, I wonder if we couldn't!" Clark looked at the others tentatively

"Good Injun ht do the rescue act and square higested dryly

"Oh, say, you'd scare her to death There's no use in piling it on quite so thick," Jack interposed mildly "I kinda like the kid sometimes Yesterday, when I took her part way up the bluff, she acted almost human On the dead, she did!"

"Kill the traitor! Doith hi his cigarette threateningly

Whereupon Gene and Clark seized the offender by heels and shoulders, and with a brief, panting struggle heaved hioes--soup his legs hastily out of the way of Jack's clutching fingers

"Say, old Peppajee's down at the stable with papa," Donny inforht next to Vadnie if he stays to supper--and, uh course, he will If e his place, it'll be fun to watch her; watch Vad, Ithat wears a blanket, and to have one right at her elboonder where she is--"

"That girl's got to be educated so to live in this family," Wally observed ot to learn, and the only way to learn her thorough is--"

"You forget," Grant interrupted hientle doith it already You oughta be quarantined, old-ti" Wally snorted his disdain of the whole proceeding "I'd rather go to jail myself"

Evadna by a circuitous route had reached the sitting-roo seen or heard; and it was at this point in the conversation that she tiptoed out again, her hands doubled into tight little fists, and her teeth set hard together She did not look, at that ree "mushy"