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She looked up, and gave hi certain "wheels" in the corner of an i the to win her attention to himself, but she pushed her cup and saucer aside to lanced at hiel look

"Don't interrupt, please," she said ly "This is IMPORTANT And," she troubled to explain, "I' to help Aunt Phoebe ht that would fix his determination to remain and have her to himself for a few minutes, she was mistaken in her man Good Indian turned on his heel, and went out with his chin in the air, and found that Gene and Clark had gone off to the meadoith Donny an unwelco the dustto tempt a shot fro the bullet which Good Indian carried in his breast-pocket

"WE can't raise anybody," Wally told hioing to quit fooling around, and go to work"

Whether he did or not, Good Indian did not wait to prove He did not say anything, either, about his own plans He was hurt most unreasonably because of Evadna's behavior, and he felt as if he were groping about blindfolded so far as the Hart trouble was concerned Thereto do, but he could not see what it was It reebra open before him, and scowled at a probleh it with a diabolical frequency, and there was no visiblewhat the unknown quantities could possibly be

He saddled Keno, and rode away in that silent preoccupation which the boys called the sulks for want of a better understanding of it As ato put Evadna out of his mind for the present, so that he could think clearly of what he ought to do He glanced often up at the rim-rock as he rode slowly to the Point o' Rocks, and when he was halfway to the turn he thought he saw so up there

He pulled up to make sure, and a little blue ball puffed out like a child's balloon, burst, and dissipated itself in a thin, trailing ribbon, which the wind caught and swept to nothing At the sa up a little spurt of fine sand