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"Dad, they've gone," declared Jean "We had the best of this fight If only Guy an' Jacobs had listened!"

The oldthese two trying days His hair was grayer Now that the blaze and glow of the fight had passed he showed a subtle change, a fixed and nation to a fate he had accepted

The ordinary routine of ranch life did not return for the Isbels Blaisdell returned home to settle matters there, so that he could devote all his time to this feud Gaston Isbel sat down to wait for the uard in turn over the ranch that night And another day dawned It brought word from Blaisdell that Blue, Fredericks, Gordon, and Colmor were all at his house, on the way to join the Isbels This news appeared greatly to rejuvenate Gaston Isbel But his enthusias Impatient and moody by turns, he paced orout, sometimes toward Blaisdell's ranch, but ular that neither Esther Isbel nor Mrs Jacobs suggested a reburial of their husbands The two bereaved women did not ask for assistance, but repaired to the pasture, and there spent several hours working over the graves They raised mounds, which they sodded, and then placed stones at the heads and feet Lastly, they fenced in the graves

"I reckon I'll hitch up an' drive back home," said Mrs Jacobs, when she returned to the cabin "I've o to lad to have o," declared Esther Isbel, bitterly

Gaston Isbel heard this remark He raised his face from his hands, evidently both nettled and hurt

"Esther, shore that's not kind," he said

The red-haired woirl any azed down at hiray eyes

"Gaston Isbel, all I've got to say to you is this," she retorted, with the voice of a man "Seein' that you an' Lee Jorth hate each other, why couldn't you act like in' in every relation, every friend to murder each other! That's not the way of Arizona ot to suffer--an' omen be ruined for life--because YOU had differences with Jorth If you were half a o out an' kill him yourself, an' not leave a lot of s an' orphaned children!"