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"That there's where I stand," he stated, with arrogant self-assurance His mouth dren at the corners in a s to do about it, and intimated quite as plainly that he did not care what they did, though he ht feel a certain curiosity as an onlooker

"I happen to know--" Peaceful began, suddenly for hier waved hi quantities here," he stated pompously

"That's what I aim to do," Stanley told hio, that there WASN'T," Peaceful drawled laconically, and sucked so hard upon his pipe that his cheeks held deep hollows

Stanley grinned at hio at that," he said ironically "I reckon I'll have to do soh, before I feel satisfied there ain't"

"Then you haven't panned out anything yet?" Phoebe caught hilance at Bauer puffed out his chest and said: "The laon't perood reason We can serve an injunction--"

"You can serve and be darned" Stanley's grin returned, wider than before

"As Mr Hart's legal adviser," Bauan, in the tone he employed in the courtroom--a tone which held no hint of his wheezy chuckle or his oily reassurance--"I hereby demand that you leave this claim which you have staked out upon Thomas Hart's ranch, and protest that your continued presence here, after twenty-four hours have expired, will be looked upon as rinned "As al adviser," he returned calo plumb to HEL-ena" Stanley evidently felt ilanced at thely and as if he wished theer had chanced to look toward Good Indian, hely his mother's people He had that stoniness of expression which betrays strong e nostrils and the light in his half-shut eyes contrasted strangely He had uarded tone, and he was thinking and weighing and s he felt sure; of others he was half convinced; and there was more which he only suspected And all the while he stood there quietly beside Evadna, his attitude almost that of boredom

"I think, since you have been properly notified to leave," said Bauathers up his papers relating to one case, thrusts them into his pocket, and turns his attention to the needs of his next client, "we'll just have it out with these other fellows, though I look upon Stanley," he added half huo"