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"Oh, the whole place is like a GRAVEYARD," she co but just wander around! I just can't STAND it!" Which was not frank of her

"It's too hot to do ht take a ride, if you don't mind the heat"

"You don't want to ride," she objected petulantly "Why didn't you go with Good Indian?" he countered

"Because I didn't want to And I do wish you'd quit calling hi for a scrap," grinned Jack, "I'll stake you to o down and kill off a few of those claim-jumpers You seem to be in just about the proper frains to look as if o," she retorted cruelly "There doesn't seeh to stop theuess that'll be about enough," Jack interrupted her, coldly "Why didn't you say that to Good Indian?"

"I told you not to call him that I don't see why everybody is so hed, he shut his eyes until he looked through narrow slits under heavy lashes, and showed some very nice teeth, and two deep dihed then, for the first time that day, and if Evadna had been in a less vixenish tehed with him just as everyone else always did But instead of that, she began to cry again, which ood," he urged remorsefully But Evadna turned and ran back into the house and into her roo in at the hich opened upon the porch, saw her there, huddled upon the bed

In the spring-house hissilently over her helplessness, and failed to respond to his co pats upon the shoulder Donny struck at him viciously when Jack asked him an idle question, and Charlie, the Indian with the tumor over his eye, scowled fro until someone offered him fruit, or food, or tobacco He was of an acquisitive nature, was Charlie--and the road to his favor ifts

"This is what I call hell," Jack stated aloud, and went straight away to the strawberry patch, took up his stand with his toes against Stanley's corner stake, cursed him methodically until he had quite exhausted his vocabulary, and put a period to his forceful reh Stanley's coffee-pot And Jack was the mild one of the family