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Noon found the

Working together in a strong and frank cootten and the future still put far away--half a day's labor advanced the distance on the road to safety

Even these few hours sufficed to prove that, unless soe, untoward accident befell, they stood a in with, that a hohth story of the toas entirely impractical, since it would mean that , they quickly changed their dwelling

They chose a suite of offices on the fifth floor, looking directly out over and into the cool green beauty of Madison Forest In an hour or so, they cleared out the bats and spiders, the rubbish and the dust, and ood beginning, anyhow," re critically at the finished work

"I don't see e shouldn't make a fairly coh for ease, and it's high enough for safety--to keep prowling bears and wolves and--and other things frohed, but ed his merriment with apprehension "In a day or two I'll make some kind of an outer door, or barricade But first, I need that ax and sos Can you spare me for a while, now?"

"I'd rather go along, too," she answered wistfully, fro

"No, not this tio 'way to the top of the tower and bring down oing out on a hunt for dishes, a lath for a while; stay here and keep house and be a good girl!"

"All right," she acceded, so"

"This afternoon, perhaps; not now Good-by!" And he started for the door Then a thought struck him He turned and came back

"By the way," said he, "if we can fix up some kind of a holster, I'll take one of those revolvers With the best of this leather here," nodding at the Gladstone bag, "I should i serviceable"

They planned the holster together, and he cut it out with his knife, while she slit leather thongs to lash it with Presently it was done, and a strap to tie it round his waist with--a crude, rough thing, but just as useful as though finished with the utmost skill