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Bau drunkenly up the path to the house where the cool shade of the grove was like paradise set close against the boundary of the purgatory of blazing sunshine and scorching sand He had not gone ten steps from the stable when heshort and eying him malevolently with lowered head

Good Indian's lips curled silently, and he stepped aside to pursue his way Baue body toward hi in that, is there? HULLO--d'yuh hear?"

"Go to the devil!" said Grant shortly

Bauer leered at him offensively "Pretty Polly! Never learned but one set uh words in his life Can't yuh say anything but 'Go to the devil!' when a man speaks to yuh? Hey?"

"I could say a whole lot that you wouldn't be particularly glad to hear" Good Indian stopped, and faced hi, he knew that Evadna aiting on the porch for hier's attitude was insulting "I think," he said ly, "I wouldn't press the point if I were you"

"Giving me advice, hey? And who the devil are you?"

"I wouldn't ask, if I were you But if you really want to know, I'm the fellow you hired Saunders to shoot You blundered that tier Saunders couldn't have hit the side of a barn if he'd been locked inside it You ought to have ed, his eyes like an anione mad

"I'll make a better job, then!" he bellowed "Saunders was a fool I told hiood job of it I told hiade Injun--and if he couldn't, I can! Yuh WILL watch me, hey?"

Good Indian backed from him in sheer amazement Epithets unprintable poured in a strea beast of a man He would have torn the other to pieces and reveled in the doing He bellowed forth threats against Good Indian and the Harts, young and old, and vaunted rashly the things he meant to do Heat-mad and drink-mad he was, and it was as if the dam of his wily amiability had broken and let loose the whole vile reservoir of his pirate mind He tried to strike Good Indian dohere he stood, and when his bloere parried he stopped, swayed a minute in drunken uncertainty, and then un, and fired without really taking aim