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Dale aith a thundering curse

"Shore!" exclaiious Don't thet beady-eyed greaser's gall make you want to spit all over yourself? My Gawd! but Roy was mad! Roy's powerful fond of Miss Helen an' Bo Wal, then, Roy, first chance he got, braced Beasley an' give hiht talk Beasley was foas shot Roy Shot his of bein' a gun-fighter Mebbe thet wasn't a bad shot for him!"

"I reckon," replied Dale, as he sed hard "Now, just as Roy's e to me?"

"Wal, I can't remember all Roy said," answered John, dubiously "But Roy shore was excited an' dead in earnest He says: 'Tell Milt what's happened Tell hier than she was last fall Tell him I've seen her look away acrost the mountains toward Paradise Park with her heart in her eyes Tell him she needs hiue He was seized by a ind of passionate, terrible sweetness of sensation, hat he wildly wanted was to curse Roy and John for their simple-minded conclusions

"Roy's--crazy!" panted Dale

"Wal, now, Milt--thet's downright surprisin' of you Roy's the level-headest of any fellars I know"

"Man! if he MADE me believe him--an' it turned out untrue--I'd--I'd kill him," replied Dale

"Untrue! Do you think Roy Beeman would lie?"

"But, John--you fellows can't see my case Nell Rayner wants me--needs me! It can't be true!"

"Wal, ly "Thet's the hell of life--never knowin' But here it's joy for you You can believe Roy Beeman about women as quick as you'd trust hiirls I reckon he'llfarms He said he'd seen Nell Rayner's heart in her eyes, lookin' for you--an' you can jest bet your life thet's true An' he said it because he irl"

"I'll--go," said Dale, in a shaky whisper, as he sat down on a pine log near the fire He stared unseeingly at the bluebells in the grass by his feet while storm after storm possessed his breast They were fierce and brief because driven by his will In those fewstrife Dale was iulf of self which had ain it see i black, bitter, melancholy, and reat moment had been forced upon hi Helen; but he had gone back or soared onward, as if by ic, to his old true self