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"I'll do all I can for hied or knifed by that half-breed I shore hope y'u'll be round to nurse me"

"Y'u seem to be pretty shore of your fate, Colter"

"Shore as hell!" he bit out, darkly "So trailin' us to the Jorth ranch"

"Are y'u goin' to stay heah--an' wait for them?"

"Shore I've been quarrelin' with the fellars out there over that very question I'hter, is daid set to kill that cow Fisher, the old Texas outlaw None but Queen are spoilin' for another fight All the same they won't leave Tad Jorth heah alone"

Then Colter leaned in at the door and whispered: "Ellen, I cain't boss this outfit So let's y'u an' ht an' shake this country"

Colter,under his breath, left the door and returned to his comrades Ellen had received her first intiold started a train of thought that persisted in spite of her efforts to put all her nize her working over him, and thanked her with a look that touched Ellen deeply It changed the direction of herand imminent death, which she was able to alleviate and retard soot her own plight Half the night she was tending hi him quiet Well she realized that but for her th he went to sleep

And Ellen, sitting beside him in the lonely, silent darkness of that late hour, received again the intis of her innerht and the forest and the sky Soo of her soul She pondered

Attention to the wounded man occupied Ellen; and soon she redoubled her activities in this regard, finding in theainst Colter

He had waylaid her as she went to a spring for water, and with a lunge like that of a bear he had tried to eoin' aith me?" he demanded

"No I'll stick by my uncle," she replied