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"'Our Mutual Friend?'" Good Indian suggested unexpectedly

"Oh, you've read it!--where she always says: 'I know their tricks and theirsohile bit of justice on their side, they could carry this case along till the very expense of it would eat up the ranch and leave the Harts flat broke And if they didn't fight and keep on fighting, they could lose it--so there you are"

She shut the book with a slaloom settle blacker than before on his face, and remembered that he felt himself at least partly to blame, "it helps a lot to have the law all on our side, and--" She had to go then, because the dispatcher was calling, and she knew it must be a train order "We'll read up a littlelaws--and ht to coers chittered a reply to the call, and then turned her attention wholly to receiving thewell the easy custo always perarette while he waited for her to co thehis tobacco afire, when came a tap-tap of feet on the platform, and Evadna appeared in the half-open doorway

"Oh!" she exclai there and looking so ie invited cordially "Don't stand there in the hot sun Mr I to turn the seat of honor over to you this instant Awfully glad you came Have some candy"

Evadna sat down in the rocker, thrust her two little feet out so that the toe, of her shoes showed close together beyond the heauntleted palms upon the arms of the chair and rocked ie, and afterward tilted up her chin and s to the public in the way of a calendar two feet long

"When did you co so hard to keep a placating note out of his voice that he etic