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"Jane, those hogs--" stammered Esther Isbel, to the wife of Jacobs "Cos?"

The woman ran to theand looked out She stiffened as had Esther

"Dad, will those hogs--eat human flesh?" queried Jean, breathlessly

The old man stared out of theSurprise seeered him

"Jean--can you--can you shoot that far?" he asked, huskily

"To those hogs? No, it's out of range"

"Then, by God, we've got to stay trapped in heah an' watch an awful sight," ejaculated the old man, completely unnerved "See that break in the fence!Jorth's done that To let in the hogs!"

"Aw, Isbel, it's not so bad as all that," re his bloody head "Jorth wouldn't do such a hell-bent trick"

"It's shore done"

"Wal, s won't find Guy an' Jacobs," returned Blaisdell, weakly Plain it was that he only hoped for such a contingency and certainly doubted it

"Look!" cried Esther Isbel, piercingly "They're workin' straight up the pasture!"

Indeed, to Jean it appeared to be the fatal truth He looked blankly, feeling a little sick Ann Isbel came to peer out of theand she uttered a cry Jacobs's wife stood hty oath "-- -- --! Isbel, we cain't stand heah an' watch thes eat our people!"

"Wal, we'll have to What else on earth can we do?"

Esther turned to the men She hite and cold, except her eyes, which reseray flames

"Somebody can run out there an' bury our dead men," she said

"Why, child, it'd be shore death Y'u sahat happened to Guy an' Jacobs We've jest got to bear it Shore nobody needn't look out--an' see"

Jean wondered if it would be possible to keep fros were rooting and tearing in the grass, so closer and closer to the bodies The leader, a huge, gaunt boar, that had fared ill all his life in this barren country, was scarcely fifty feet away froet me some of your clothes, an' a sunbonnet--quick," said Jean, forced out of his lethargy "I'll run out there disguised Maybe I can go through with it"