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"I didn't! I couldn't help myself You--oh, I never saw such a--a brute!" The tears in her eyes were, perhaps, tears of rage at the swiftness hich he had mastered the situation and turned it in a breath froument She struck Huckleberry a bloith her hich sent that astonished ani down the slope before the resenthed aloud, spurred Keno into a run, and passed her with a scurry of dust, a flash of white teeth and laughing black eyes, and a wave of his free hand in adieu He was still laughing when he overtook the others, passed by the led out Jack, his particular chum He refused to explain either his hurry or his ue sentence about a race, and thereafter he a beside Jack in the lead, and told how he had won a hundred and sixty dollars in a crap game the last time he was in Shoshone, and how he had kept on until he had "quit ten dollars in the hole" The rest of the boys, catching a feords here and there, crowded close, and left the two girls to themselves, while Good Indian recounted in detail the fluctuations of the ga alternately; and how his luck had changed suddenly just when he had old piece he had in his hand and quit

"I threw naturals three tiot Big Dick,those Spanish spurs and that peach of a headstall in Fernando's by that ti them on Keno and me--they're in theyet, Jack, and I went in when I first hit town and looked them over and priced theuessed he'd hold them at And say, those conchos--you remember the size of 'eraved by hand Those Mexicans sure do turn out sos!" He felt in his pocket for a h alone," he went on "I had the price of the outfit, and ten dollars over But then I got hoggish I thought I stood a good chance of ot over it, I guess I was going to pinch down to ten--but I didn't; I let her ride And SHOT CRAPS!"