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Good Indian turned, yielding to the pleading of her eyes The heart of hiht of what she had done, and with an uneasy co it He walked as quickly as the rough ground would perrade; and she, with the instinctive deference to the e of primitive woman, followed soft-footedly two paces behind him Once where the as clear he stopped, and waited for her to coside, but Rachel stopped and waited also, her eyes hungrily searching his face with the look a dog has for hisof that look, and went on, and turned no o on to camp, and stay there, Rachel," he said, as casually as he could "No trouble will co absently the tangles frorateful?" he asked finally And when she gave a quick little nod, he went on: "Well, I'rateful to you You did what a rateful, and I'll not forget it All time I'll be your friend Good--by" He mounted, and rode away He felt, just then, that it was the kindest thing he could do

He looked back once, just as he was turning into the grade road She was standing, her arers tightened involuntarily the reins, so that Keno stopped and eyed his ht say to her It was not words that she wanted He swung his heels against Keno's flanks, and rode home

Evadna rallied him upon his moodiness at breakfast, pouted a little because he re, and later was deeply offended because he would not tell her where he had been, or orrying hiuess you better send word to the doctor he needn't come," the pump man put his head in at the office door to say, just as the freight was pulling away froo Pete says you better notify the coroner--and I reckon the sheriff, too Pretty tough to be shot down like that in broad daylight"

"I think I'd rather be shot in daylight than in the dark," Miss Georgie snapped unreasonably because her nerves were all a-jangle, and sent the es as requested

Saunders was neither a popular nor a prominent citizen, and there was none to mourn beside him Peter Hamilton, as his employer and a man whose ehter as to his complexion and a tone lower as to his voice perhaps, and was heard to re," but the chief eedy roused was curiosity, and that fluttering excitement which attends death in any form