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"No I couldn't tell I saw theone fer water I run an' hid in the brush I wanted to yell, but they come too close Then I heerd them talkin' Bernardino come back They 'peared friendly-like Thet ood I heerd one of theun An' Bernardino handed it over He looked at the gun an' haed, an' flipped it up in the air, an' when it fell back in his hand it--it went off bang!An' Bernardino dropped I hid down close I was skeered stiff I heerd them talk more, but not what they said Then they rode away An' I hid there till I seen y'u coot a horse?" queried Jean, sharply

"No But I can ride one of Bernardino's burros"

"Get one Hurry over to Blaisdell Tell him to send word to Blue and Gordon and Fredericks to ride like the devil toEvarts ran off without reply Jean stood looking down at the liure of the Mexican boy "By Heaven!" he exclairimly "the Jorth-Isbel war is on!Deliberate, cold-blooded iven the leadership He's started it Bernardino, greaser or not, you were a faithful lad, and you won't go long unavenged"

Jean had no ti a tarpaulin out of the teepee he covered the lad with it and then ran for, his horse Mounting, he galloped down the draw, over the little red ridges, out into the valley, where he put his horse to a run

Action changed the sickening horror that sight of Bernardino had engendered Jean even felt a strange, gri were over Jorth's gang had taken the initiative Blood had begun to flow And it would continue to flo till the last man of one faction stood over the dead body of the last man of the other Would it be a Jorth or an Isbel? "My instinct was right," he ave rassy, cattle-dotted valley he was crossing so swiftly, and toward the village, but he did not see any sign of the dark group of riders They had gone on to Greaves's store, there, no doubt, to drink and to addSuddenly across Jean's ht of Ellen Jorth "What 'll become of her?What 'll become of all the women? My sister?The little ones?"