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"There, Judkins, and understand that I regard it as little for your loyalty Give what is fair to your boys, and keep the rest

Hide it Perhaps that would be wisest"

"OhMiss Withersteen!" ejaculated the rider "I couldn't earn so htn't take it"

"Judkins, you know I'm a rich woman I tell you I've few faithful friends I've fallen upon evil days God only knoill becoold"

She sratitude, and left hi low at first, then in louder accents e of his rifle on the stones "As infernal a job as even you, Lassiter, ever heerd of"

"Why, son," was Lassiter's reply, "this breakin' of Miss Withersteen may seem bad to you, but it ain't bad--yet Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they alkin' in the shadow of Christ his en' do things that are really hell-bent"

Jane covered her ears and ran to her own rooed lioness she paced to and fro till the co day, a war in the court, a horse-rack He leaped off and approached Jane with the manner of a man determined to execute difficult ure and the lean, brown face Jane recognized one of her Mor since spoken

Of all the riders ever in her employ Blake owed her thehis hat andmanly efforts to subdue his emotion, he showed that he remembered

"Miss Withersteen, mother's dead," he said

"Oh--Blake!" exclaimed Jane, and she could say no more

"She died free fro at last, thank God!I've coain, if you'll have et your sy and your riders quit, I had to also I was afraid of what ht be done--said to herMiss Withersteen, we can't talk of--of what's going on now--"

"Blake, do you know?"

"I know a great deal You understand, my lips are shut But without explanation or excuse I offer ood one But--there are sos!It's no use, Miss Withersteen, I can't say any more--what I'd like to