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Phoebe ca-room, ran down the steps, and barred his way

"Grant!" she said, and there were tears in her eyes, "don't do anything rash--don't If it's for our sakes--and I know it is--don't do it They'll go, anyway We'll have the law on theo down there You let Thomas handle that part You're like one of o!"

He looked down at her coo, Mother Hart I've made my war-talk" He hesitated, bent his head, and kissed her on the forehead as she stood looking up at him, and went on

"Grant--GRANT!" she cried heartbrokenly after him, and sank down on the porch-steps with her face hidden in her ar toward the stable Shefor him, but she turned without any show of surprise when he walked up behind her

"Well, your jumpers seem to have taken the hint," she informed him, with a sort of surface cheerfulness "Stanley is down there talking to Mr Hart now, and the others have gone on They'll all be well over the dead-line by sundown There goes Stanley now Do you really feel that your future happiness depends on getting through this gate? Well--if you

"Grant, I--it's hard to say just what I want to say--but--you did right You acted the man's part No matter what--others--ht to kill thatunder heaven that I can do, to--to help--you'll let me do it, won't you?" Her eyes held hiht tell Then she stepped back, and contradicted the over et to the office This will never come to a trial, Grant He was like a crazy man, and we all saw hih and was a third of the way to the stable where Peaceful Hart and his boys were gathered, and then she followed him briskly, as if her mind was taken up with her own affairs

"It's a shaot cheated out of a scrap," she taunted Jack, who held her horse for her while she settled herself in the saddle "You were all spoiling for a fight--and there did sees of a beautiful row!"