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Young Burt possessed the keenest eyes of any iven the post as lookout from the lofty promontory His instructions were to keep sharp watch over the open slopes below and to report any sight of a horse

A cedar fire with green boughs on top of dead wood sent up a long, pale colu since sunrise

The preceding night camp had been made on a level spot in the cedars back of the promontory ButFor, after breakfast, the packs had been made up and the horses stood saddled and bridled They were restless and uneasy, tossing bits and fighting flies The sun, now half-way to meridian, was hot and no breeze blew in that sheltered spot

Shady Jones had ridden off early to fill the water-bags, and had not yet returned Anson, thinner and scalier and reasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze In lieu of ered with cedar-berries, each of which berries represented a pipeful of tobacco Jim Wilson brooded under a cedar-tree, his unshaven face a dirty dust-hue, a sht eyes, a sullen set to his jaw Every little while he would raise his eyes to glance at Riggs, and it sees paced to and fro in the open, coatless and hatless, his black-broadcloth trousers and eun bus looked perturbed His face eating freely, yet it was far from red in color He did not appear to , dark, wild, shifting in gaze froaze shot back to the captive girl sitting under a cedar some yards froether with one end of a lasso and the other end trailed off over the ground Her hands were free Her riding-habit was dusty and disordered Her eyes blazed defiantly out of a s in those cheap boots of yours for a s took no notice of her words

"You pack that gun-sheath wrong end out What have you got the gun for, anyhow?" she added, tauntingly

Snake Anson let out a hoarse laugh and Moze's black visage opened in a huge grin Jiirl's words Sullen and so