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"He and your dad took the train for Shoshone Say, does anyone knohat that bunch over in the ainst a tree, and eyed the two morosely

"Clark and Gene are over there," said Wally "But I'd ga any more than these fellows are They haven't started to pan out any dirt--they haven't done a thing, it looks like, but lay around in the shade I must say I don't sabe their play And the worst of it is," he added desperately, "a fellow can't do anything"

"I' to break out pretty darned sudden," Jack observed cal on" He smiled, but there was a look of steel in his eyes

Good Indian glanced at him sharply

"Now, you fellows' listen tois partly my fault I could have prevented it, maybe, if I hadn't been so taken up with er was up to some devil to Saunders in Pete Haht he was here, Peppajee and I saw hi to soot that snake bite, and he warned me a plenty But I didn't take much stock in it--or if I did--" He lifted his shoulders expressively

"So," he went on, after a , "I want you to keep out of this You kno your et foolish You can keep an eye on the for dark; and if I knehy, I'd be a lot to the good And if I knehy old Bauer took your father off so suddenly, why--I'd be wiser than I am now" He lifted his hat, brushed the runt of disapproval when his eyes rested on Jack

"What yuh loaded down like that for?" he dee I'er in one respect--we don't want any violence!" He grinned without any feeling of e first," Wally hinted, significantly "I erous, withoutwould break loose soe as life," Jack pointed out "Maybe you're just wearing it for an orna all at once the utter futility of standing there talking, left the where he was going, or what he meant to do Indeed, he scarcely knew himself He was in that uncomfortable state of , without having the faintest idea of what that so is, or how it is to be done It seemed to him that they were all in the same mental befuddlement, and it seemed i a hostile move of some sort--and he knew that, when he did ht to knohy he did it