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"Well--here I a down at the to think I had a dreaers into the pocket of his shirt and brought up the flattened bullet--"that is pretty blamed realistic--for a dream" His eyes searched involuntarily the ri himself to believe in that bullet, after all

"But two of the juone," said Wally "I reckon we stirred 'eet back at us"

"They've picked a dandy place," Good Indian observed "I think ood idea to hold that fort ourselves We should have thought of that; only I never thought--"

Phoebe, heavy-eyed and pale from wakefulness and worry, came then, and called them in to breakfast Gene and Clark came in, sulky still, and inclined to snappishness when they did speak Donny announced that he had been in the garden, and that Stanley told hiain "And I never done a thing to him!" he declared virtuously

Phoebe set down the coffee-pot with an air of decision

"I want you boys to re," she said fir on around here It isn't only what Bau to say about it--it's what I think I know I'm only a woman, and you all consider yourselves nity, maybe, to listen to your mother

"But your mother has seen the day when she was counted on as rief! I've stood for hours peeking out a knot-hole in the wall, with that saot hold of, ready to shoot the first Injun that stuck his nose from behind a rock"

The color came into her cheeks at the , when it was a life-and-death matter I've tended to thehyrown up on soh

"And here last night," she reproached irritatedly, "I heard so Mu jackanapes one thing: If I thought there was anything to be gained by it, or if it would save trouble instead of MAKING trouble, 'MUM' could go down there right now, old as she is, and SCARED as she is, and clean out the whole, measly outfit!" She stared sternly at the row of faces bent over their plates