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Tra of hoofs interrupted the rider More restless movements on the part of Tull'sthe prisoner Venters

"Mebbe I've kind of hindered somethin'--for a few moments, perhaps?" inquired the rider

"Yes," replied Jane Withersteen, with a throb in her voice

She felt the drawing power of his eyes; and then she saw him look at the bound Venters, and at the men who held him, and their leader

"In this here country all the rustlers an' thieves an' cut-throats an' gun-throwers an' all-round no-good ood class does that young feller belong to?"

"He belongs to none of them He's an honest boy"

"You KNOW that, et tied up that way?"

His clear and distinct question, meant for Tull as well as for Jane Withersteen, stilled the restlessness and brought ahigh

The rider stepped away fro out with the same slow, measured stride in which he had approached, and the fact that his action placed her wholly to one side, and hinificance

"Young feller, speak up," he said to Venters

"Here stranger, this's none of your an Tull "Don't try any interference You've been asked to drink and eat That's e of the Utah border

Water your horse and be on your way"

"Easy--easy--I ain't interferin' yet," replied the rider The tone of his voice had undergone a change A differentJane, he had been entle, noith his first speech to Tull, he was dry, cool, biting

"I've lest stuuns, an' a Gentile tied with a rope, an' a woman ears by his honesty! Queer, ain't that?"

"Queer or not, it's none of your business," retorted Tull

"Where I was raised a worowed that yet"

Tull fuer

"Meddler, we have a law here so different froress it"

"To hell with your Mormon law!"

The deliberate speech e, this ti menace It produced a transforered backward at a blasphemous affront to an institution he heldthe horses, dropped the bridles and froze in his tracks Like posts the other