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"I know--I' to ride around that way and round hith and power to do as he wished, which belongs to healthy young ood there! Dio! Ah-h--I sorry I tellum yo' now Bad mans, him I watch, I take care hih that waselse, she raised the plaid shawl, and gave hilimpse of a rather battered revolver, cheap when it was new and obviously well past its prime

"I want yo'--" she hesitated; "I want yo'--be heap careful I want yo' no ride close by hill Ride far out!" She esture toward the valley "All ti at her in a puzzled way She was handsome, after her wild, half-civilized type, and her anxiety for his welfare touched hio far down--" She swept her ar river valley "Catch fish Peppajee stay--no can walk far I stay All go, mebbyso stay five days" Her hand lifted involuntarily to mark the number

He did not knohy she told hi about his assailant She had been walking along the bluff, he gathered--though why, she failed to li the valley beneath hi ai at Good Indian

When he asked her the second ti the man, or had suspected that he would be there--she shook her head vaguely and took refuge behind the stolidity of her race

In spite of her pleading, he put his horse to scra up the first slope which it was possible to cli the ri before

But there was nothing alive that he could discover, except a hahich lifted itself languorously off a high, sharp rock, and flapped lazily out across the valley when he drew near The man with the rifle had disappeared as completely as if he had never been there, and there was not one chance in a hundred of hunting hi back at last toward Hartley, he saw Rachel for a ainst the deep blue of the sky, upon the very rin; only, for so hirant memory of the wistfulness he had seen in her eyes