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"Yes Dad is goin' straight after Jorth Can't you tell that? An' there 'll be one hell of a fight"

Ann looked up into Colmor's face with all her soul in her eyes, but she did not speak Her look was noble She yearned to guide hiht, yet her lips were sealed And Colmor betrayed the trouble of his soul The code of h he divined in that

"Jean, your dad started me in the cattle business," said Colmor, earnestly "An' I'm doin' well now An' when I asked hilad to have ht coo in on his side He wouldn't hear of it But after a while, as the time passed an' he made more enemies, he finally consented I reckon he needs me now An' I can't back out, not even for Ann"

"I would if I were you," replied jean, and knew that he lied

"Jean, I'ht," said Colmor, with a smile He had no morbid fears nor presentiood a chance as anyone," rejoined Jean "It wasn't that I orryin' about so much"

"What was it, then?" asked Ann, steadily

"If Andrew DOES coh alive he'll have blood on his hands," returned Jean, with passion "He can't coun to feel what it means to have killed my fellow men An' I'd rather your husband an' the father of your children never felt that"

Colmor did not take Jean as subtly as Ann did She shrunk a little Her dark eyes dilated But Col He had wild blood He was loyal to the Isbels

"Jean, never worry about my conscience," he said, with a keen look "Nothin' would tickle et a shot at every damn one of the Jorths"

That established Colard to the Jorth-Isbel feud Jean had no nant sorrow for Ann

Gaston Isbel called for uests When his wishes had been co cabin and shut the door