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"Search ME," he offered figuratively and briefly

"Well, I will" Miss Georgie spoke with a certain decisiveness, and reaching out a sage-soiled hand, took his gun from the holster at his hip He shrank aith aanyone le movement, which he controlled instantly

"Stand still, can't you?" he adun with a dexterity and ease of every motion which betrayed her perfect familiarity with firearms She snapped the cylinder into place, sniffed daintily at the end of the barrel, and slipped the gun back into its scabbard

"Don't think I doubted your word," she said, casting a slanting glance up at hi her head "But I wanted to be able to swear positively, if I should happen to be dragged into the witness-box--I hope it won't be by the hair of the head!--that your gun has not been fired thisrod with you," she added, "which would hardly be likely"

"You ested, and for an engaged young man, and one deeply in love withal, he displayed a contentment with the situation which was almost reprehensible

"No use If you did pack one with you, you'd be a fool not to throw it away after you had used it No, I'll swear to the gun as it is now Are you ever going to get ht this minute, I'll bet a roaned "I'd have to telegraph et there on tiht--is due in eighteen ot to be there Take your jackknife and cut on't come loose Really, I mean it, Mr Imsen"

"I was under the impression that my name is Grant--to friends"

"My naht," she retorted curtly "Take your knife and give me a hair cut--quick! I can do it a different way, and cover up the place"

"Oh, all right--but it's a sha on a bush"

"Tellto do now? We haven'te should have been discussing 'ways and ot up early, and soain This time he clipped my hat-brim" He took off his hat, and showed her where the bried tear half an inch deep "I ducked, and et him this time, or know the reason why So I rode up the other way and back behind the orchard, and struck the grade below the Point o' Rocks, and so caht--we've done that before; Jack and I took sneak yesterday, and ca I was beginning to think he had given it up So I was just scouting around here when I heard you rustling the bushes over here I was going to shoot, but I changed ht I'd land on you and trust to the lessons I got in football and the gun And the rest," he declaimed whimsically, "you know