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COPVftiGrtr. 896t 8Y.J B tfWNCOTT 3Iy wonderment grewFhen I called on the conductor for his tickets. These showed nothing bnt two from AlbuJ found the express agent tied hand and foot. iuerque, one from Laguna and four from Coolidge. This latter would have looked hopeful but for tho fact that it was a party of three women and a man. Jing back beyond Lamy didn't give anything, for the conductor was able to account for every fare as either still in the train or as having got off at some point. My only conclusion was that the bobbers had sneaked on to the platforms at Sanders, and I gave the crew a good dressing down for their carelessness. Of jcourse they insisted it was Impossible, but they were bound to do that. Going back to 97, I got my telegraph 'instrument, though I thought it a waste 'of time, the road agents being always careful to break the lines. I told a brakeman to climb" the' pole and cut a wire. While he was struggling up. Miss Cullen joined me. - "Do you really expect to catch them?" she asked. "I shouldn't like to be one of them," J replied. "But how can you do it?" You could understand better, Miss Cullen, if you knew this country. You see every bit of water is "in use by ranches, and those fellows can't go more than 50 miles without watering. So we shall have word of them, wherever they go. "Line cut," Mr. Gordon, " came from overhead at this point, making Miss Cullen jump with surprise. "What was that?" she asked. I explained to her, and, after making connections, I called Sanders. Much to my surprise, - the agent responded. -1 was so astonished that for a moment I could not believe the fact. "This is the queerest hold up of which I ever heard, " I said to Miss Cullen. "Aw, in what respect" asked Albert Cullen's voice, and, looking up, I found that he and quite a number of the passengers had joined us. "The road agents make us dump our fire," I said, "and yet they haven't cut the wires in either direction. I can't see how they can escape us. " "What fun!" cried Miss Cullen. "I don't see what difference either makes in their chance of escaping, " said Lord Ralles. While he was speaking I t icked off the news of our being held up and asked the agent if there had been any men about Sanders, or if he had seen any one board the train there. His answer was positive that no one could have done so, and that settled it as to Sanders. I asked the same questions of Allan town and Wingate, which were tho only places we had stopped at after leaving Coolidge, getting the samo answers. That eight men could have remained concealed on any of the platforms from that point was impossible, and I began to suspect magic. Then I called Coolidge and told of the hold up, after which I telegraphed the agent at Navajo Springs to notify the commander at Fort Defiance, for i suspected the road agents would make for the Navajo reservation. Finally I called Flagstaff as I had Coolidge, directed that the authorities be notified of the facts and ordered a special to bring out the sheriff and posse. "I don't think," said Miss Cullen, "that I am a bit more curious than most people, but it has nearly made mo frantic to have you tick away on that little machine and hear it tick back and not understand a word. " After that I had to tell her what I had said and learned. "How clever of you to think of counting the tickets and finding out where people got on and off! I never should have thought of either," she said. "It hasn't helped me much, " I laughed rather grimly, "except to eliminate every possible clew." "They probably did steal on at one of tho stops," said a passenger. I shook my head. "-There- isn't a stick cf timber nor a place of concealment on these alkali plains," I replied, "and it was bright moonlight till an hour ago. It would be hard enough for one man to get within a milo of the station without being seen, and it would be impossible for seven or eight. " "How do you know the number?" asked a passenger. "I don't," I said. "That's the number .tho crew think there were, but I myself don't believe it. ' "Whydon-'t you believe the men?" asked Mis s Cullen. "First, because there is always a tendency to magnify, and, next, because the road agents ran away so quickly." "I counted at least seven," said Lord Balles. "Well, Lord Ralles,,. I said, MI don't want to dispute your eyesight, but if they had ; been that strong they would never have bolted, and if you want to lay a bottle of wine I'll wager that when I catch those chaps we'll find there weren't more than three or four f them." "Done!" said he.

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get tne report ol tne uxnri agent. He had put things to rights and told me that, though the mail had been pretty badly mixed up, only one pouch at worst had been rifled. This, the one for registered mail, had been cut open; but, as if to increase the mystery, the letters had been scattered, unopened, about the car, only three out of the whole being missing, and those very probably had fallen into the pigeonholes and would be found on a more careful search. I confess I breathed easier to think that the road agents had got away with nothing, and was so pleased that I went back to the wire to send the news of it that the fact might be included in the press dispatches. The moon had set, and it was so dark that I had some difficulty in finding tho pole. When I found it, Miss Cullen was still standing there. What was more, a man was close beside her, and as I came up I heard her say, indignantly: "I will not allow it. It is unfair to take 6uch advantage of me. Take your arm away or I shall call for help!" That was enough for me. One step carried my 160 pound1? over the intervening ground, and, using the momentum of the stride to help, I put the flat ct my hand against the shoulder of the man and gave him a shove. There are three or four Harvard men who can tell what that means, and they were braced for it, which this fellow wasn't. He went staggering back as if struck by a cowcatcher and lay down on the ground a good 15 feet away. His having his arm around Miss Cullen's waist unsteadied her so that she would have fallen, too, if I hadn't put my hand against her shoulder. I longed to put it about her, but by this time I wanted to do only what I thought she, would wish and so restrained myself. Before I had time to finish an apology to Miss Cullen the fellow was upon his feet and came at me with an exclama-. tion of anger. In my surprise at recoff uuiug tne voice as tnat ol Lord Kallei I almost neglected to take care of myself; but, though he was quick with hii fists, I caught him by the wrists as he closed, and he had no chance after that against a fellow of my weight. "Oh, don't quarrel!" cried Misa Cullen. Holding him, I said, "Lord Balles, ) overheard what Miss Cullen was saying, and supposing some man was insulting her I acted as I did. " Then I let go ol him and, turning, said, "lam very sorry, Miss Cullen, if I did anything the circumstances did not warrant," while cursing myself for my precipitancy and for not thinking that Miss Cullen would never have been caught in such a plight with a man unless she had been hall willing, for a girl does not merely threaten to call for help if she really wants aid. Lord Balles wasn't much mollified by my explanation. "You're too much is a hurry, my man," he growled, speaking to me as if I were a servant "Be a bit more careful in the future. " I think I should have retorted-fox his manner was enough to make a saint mad if Miss Cullen hadn't spoken. "You tried to help me, Mr. Gordon, and I am deeply grateful for that," she said. The words look simple enough set down here. But the tone in which she said them and the extended hand and the grateful little squeeze she gave my fingers all seemed to express so much that I was more puzzled over them than I was over the robbery. CHAPTER IV. SOME RATHER QCKER ROAD AGENTS. "You had better come back to the car, Miss Cullen," remarked Lord Ballei after a pause. But she declined to do so, saying she wanted to know what I was going tc telegraph. And he left us, for which 1 wasn't sorry. I told her of the good news I had to send, and she wanted tc know if now we- would try to catch the road agents. I set her mind at rest on that score. "I think they'll give us very little trouble to bag," I added, "for they are so green that it's almost pitiful." "In not cutting the wires?" she asked. "In everything," I replied. "But the worst botch is their waiting till we had just passed the Arizona line. If they had held us up an hour earlier, it would only have been state's prison. " "And what will it be now?" "Hanging." "What?" cried Miss Cullen. "In New Mexico train robbing is not capital, but in Arizona it is, " I told her. "And if you catch them they'll be hung?" she asked. "Yes." "That seems very hard." The first signs of dawn were begin ning to show by this time, and as the sky brightened I told Miss Cullen that 1 was going to look for the trail of the fugitives. She said she would walk witt me, if not in the way, and my assurance was very positive on that point. And here I want to remark that it's saying a good deal if a girl can be up all night in such excitement and still look fresi and prettv, and that she did. I ordered the crew to look about, and then began a big circle around the train. Finding nothing, I swung a bigger one. That being equally unavailing, I did a larger third. Not a trace of foot or hooi within a half mile of the cars! I had heard of blankets laid down to conceal a trail of swathed feet, even of leathern horse boots with cattle hoofs on the bot torn, but none of these could have been used for such a distance, let alone the entire absence of any signs of a place where the horses had been hobbled. Returning to the train, the report of the men was the same. "We've ghost road agents to deal with. Miss Cullen," I laughed. "They come from nowhere, bullets touch them not, their lead hurts nobody, they take nothing, and they disappear without touching the ground." "How curious it is!" she exclaimed. "One would almost suppose it a dream." ' Hold on, "I said. "We do have something tangible, for if they disappeared they left their shells behind them." And I pointed, ta.inrait rartrirign shall

iiiut. my on tne ground beside the mail car. "My theory of aerial bullets won't da" "The shells are as hollow as I feel," laughed Miss Cullen. "Your suggestion reminds me that I am desperately hungry," I said. "Suppose we go back and end the famine. " Most of the passengers had long since returned to their seats or berths and 3Ir. Cullen's party had apparently done the same, for 218 showed no signs of life. One of my darkis was awake, and he broiled a steak and made us some coffee in no time, and just as they -were ready Albert Cullen appeared. So we made a very jolly little breakfast. He told me at length the part he and" the Britishers had borne and only made me marvel the more that any one of them wa3 alive, for apparently they had jumped off tho car without the slightest precaution and had stood grouped together even after they had called attention to themselves by Lord Balles' shots. Cullen had to confess that he heard the whistle of the four bullets unpleasantly close. "You have a right to be proud, Mr. Cullen," I said. "You fellows did a tremendously plucky thing, and, thanks to you, we didn't lose anything." "But you went to help, too, Mr. Gordon, " said Miss Cullen. That made me color up, and after a moment's hesitation I said: "I'm not going to sail under false

colors, Miss Cullen. When I went for- j ward, I didn't think I could do any I thing. I supposed whoever had pitched ( into the robbers was dead, and I expect-; ed to be the same inside of ten minutes. " i "Then why did you risk your life,"' she asked, "if you thought it was use- j less?" ! I laughed, and, though ashamed to ! tell it, said, "I didn't want you to think j that the Britishers had more pluck than j I had." She took my confession better than I I hoped she would, laughing with me, j and then said, "Well, that was coura-j geous, after alL " j "Yes," I said. "I was frightened into i bravery." ' j "Perhaps if they had known the dan- j ger as well as you, they would have been less courageous," she continued. And I could have blessed her for the speech. While we were still eating, the mail clerk came to my car and reported that the most careful search had failed tc discover the three registered letters, and they had evidently been taken. This made me feel sober, slight as the probable loss was. He told me that his list showed they were all addressed to Ash Forks, A. T. , making it improbable that their contents could be of any real value. If possible, I was more puzzled than ever. At 6:10 the runner whistled to show he had steam up. I told one . of the brakemen to stay behind and then went So we made-a veryjoUy little breakfast. into 218, Mr. Cullen was still dressing, ' but I expressed my regrets through the door that I could not go with his party to the Grand canyon; told him that all . the stage arrangements had been com- j pleted and promised to join him there in case my luck was good. Then I saw Frederic for a moment to see how he was (for I had nearly forgotten him in ( the excitement), to find that he was gaining al the time and preparing even to get up. WTien I returned to the saloon, the rest of the party were there, and I said goodby to the captain and Albert. Then I turned to Lord Balles, and, holding out my hand, said: "Lord Balles, I joked a little the other morning about the way yon thought road agents ought to be treated. You have turned the joke very neatly and pluckily, and I want to apologize for myself and thank you for the railroad." "Neither is necessary," he said airily, pretending not to see my hand. I never claimed to have a good temper, and it was all I could do to hold myself in. I turned to Miss Cullen tc wish her a pleasant trip, and the thought that this might be our last meeting made me forget even Lord'Bales. . "I hope it isn't goodby, butraly an revoir," she said. "Whether or no, yon; must let us see you some time in Chicago, so that I may show you how grateful I am for all the pleasure you have added to our trip." Then, as I stepped down off my platform, she leaned ovei the rail of 218 and said in a low voice, "I thought you were just as brave as the rest, Mr. Gordon, and now I think you are braver. " I turned impulsively and said, "Yon would think so, Miss Cullen, if yon knew the sacrifice I am making. ' ' Then, without looking at her, I gave the signal, the bell rang, and No. 3 pulled off. The last thing I saw was a handkerchiei waving off the platform of 218. When the train dropped out of sight over a grade, I swallowed the lump in my throat and went to the telegraph instrument. I wired Coolidge to give the alarm to Fort Wingate, Fort Apache, Fort Thomas, Fort Grant, Fort Bayard and Fort Whipple, though I thought the precaution a mere waste of energy. Then I sent the brakeman up to connect the cut wire. " " "Two of the bullets struck up here, Mr. GordoaC" the man called from the top of the pole. "Surely not!" I exclaimed. "Yes, sir," he responded. "The bullet holes are brand new." I took in the lay of the land, the embers of the -fire showing me how the train had lain. "I don't wonder nobody was hit," I exclaimed, "if that's a sample of their shooting. Some one was a Worse rattled man than I ever expect tc be. Dig the bullets out, Douglas, so that we can have a look at them." He brought them down in a minute. They proved to be Winchesters, as I had expected, for they were on the side from whishjthe jsjhbOT mn&t hTeJfirek

xnai cuap niast nave oeen run oi Arizona tanglefoot to have fired as wild as he did," I ejaculated and walked over to where the mail car had stood tc see just how bad the shooting was. When I got there and faced about, it was really impossible to believe any man could have done so badly, for raising my own Winchester to the pole put it 20 degrees out of range and nearly 40 degrees in the air. Yet there were the cartridge shells on the ground to show, that I was in the place from which the shots had been fired. While I was still cogitating over this the special train I had ordered out from Flagstaff came in sight and in a few moments was stopped where I was. It consisted of a string of three flats and a box car and brought the sheriff, a dozen cowboys whom he had sworn in as deputies and their horses. I was hopeful that with these fellows' greater skill in

such matters they could find what I had j not, but after a thorough examination of the ground within a mile of the robbery they were as much at fault as I had been. "Them cusses must have a dugout nigh abouts, for they couldn't 'a' get away without wings," the sheriff surmised. I didn't put much stock" in that idea and told the sheriff so. ' 'Waal, round up a better one," was his retort. Not being able to do that, I told him of the bullets in the telegraph pole and took him over to where the mail car had stood. "Jerusalem crickets!" was his comment as he measured the aim. 4 ' If that's where they put two of their pills, they must have pumped the other four inter the moon. ' "What other four?" I asked. , "Shot3l" he replied 6ententiously. "The road " agents only fired four times, " I told him. "Them and your pards must have been pretty nigh together for a minute, then," he said, pointing to the ground. I glanced down, and, sure enough, there were six empty cartridge shells. I stood looking blankly at them, hardly able to believe what I saw, for Albert Cullen had said distinctly that the train rebbers had fired only four times, and that the, last three Winchester shots I had heard had been fired by himself. Then, without speaking, I walked slowly back, searching along the edge of the roadbed for more shells; but, though I went beyond the point where the last car had stood, not one did I find. Any man who has fired a Winchester knows that it drops its empty shell in loading, and I could therefore draw only one conclusion namely, that all seven discharges of the Winchesters had occurred up by the mail car. I had heard of men supposing they had fired their guns through hearing another go off, but with a repeating rifle one has' to fire before one can reload. The fact was evident that Albert Cullen either had fired hia Winchester up by the mail car or else had not fired it at alL In either case he had lied, and Lord Balles and Captain Ackland had backed him up in it. CHAPTER V. A TRIP TO THE GRAND CAXTOX. I stood pondering, for no explanation that would fit the facts seemed possible, I should have considered the young fellow 's story only an attempt to gain a little reputation for pluck if in anyway I could have accounted for the appearance and disappearance of the robbers. Yet to Buppose which seemed the only other horn to the dilemma that the son and guests of the vice president of the Missouri Western and one of our own directors would be concerned in train robbery was to believe something equally improbable. Indeed I should have put the whole thing down as a practical joke of Mr. Cullen's party if it had not been for the loss of the registered letters. Even a practical joker would hardly care to go to tho length of cutting open government mail pouches, for Uncle Sam doesn't approve of such conduct. Whatever the explanation, I had ! enough facts to prevent me from wasting more time on that alkali plain. Getting the men and horses back on to I the cars, I jumped up on tho tailboard and ordered the runner to pull out fox Flagstaff. It was a run of seven hours, getting .us in a little after 8, and in those hours I had done a lot of thinking, which had all come to one result 'that Mr. Cullen's party was concerned in the hold up. The two private cars were on a siding, but the Cullens had left for the Grand . canyon the moment they had arrived and were about reaching there by this ! time. I went to 218 and questioned the ! cook and waiter, but they either had seen nothing or else had been primed, for not a fact did I get from them. Go ing to my own car, I ordered a quick supper, and while I was eating it I questioned my boy. He told me that he had heard the shots and had bolted the front door of my car, as I had ordered when J went out; that as he turned to go to a safer place he had seen a man, revolver in hand, climb over the offside gate oi Mr. Cullen's car, and for a moment he had supposed it a road agent till he saw that it was Albert Cullen. "That was just after I had got off?" 1 asked. "Yis, sah." "Then it couldn't have been Mr. Cullen, Jim," I declared, "for I found him up at the other end of the car. " "Tell you it wuz, Mr. Gordon," Jim insisted. "I done seen his face cl'ar in de light, and he done go into Mr. Cullen's car, whar de old gentleman wuz sittin." That set me whistling to myself, and I laughed to think how near I had come to giving nitroglycerin to a fellow who was only shamming heart failure, for that it was Frederic Cullen who had climbed on the car I hadn't the slightest doubt, the resemblance between the two brothers being quite strong enough to deceive any one who had never seen them together. I smiled a little and remarked to myself: "I think I can make good my boast that I would catch the robbers, but whether the Cullens will like my doing it I question. What- is more, Lord' Balles will owe me a bottle." Then I thought of Madge and didn't feel as pleased over my success as I had felt a moment before. By 9 o'clock the posse and I were in the saddle and skirting the San Francisco peaks. There wa3 no use of pressing the ponies, for our game wasn't trying to escape, and, for that matter, couldn't, as the Colorado river wasn't passable. 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Indian pony, or I should probably have landed in a heap. I don't know that I should have cared particularly if a prairie dog burrow had made me dash my brains out, for I wasn't happy over the job that lay before me. We watered at Silver Spring at quarter past 12. From that point we were clear of the pines and out on the plain, so we could go a better pace. This brought us to the half way ranch by 2, where we gave the ponies a feed and an hour's rest. We reached the last relay station just as the nioon set. about 3:40, and, as all tne rest or tne rja 'was through cocouino forest, we held up there for daylight, getting a Jvtle sleep meanwhile. We rode into the camp at the Grand canyon a little after 8, and the deserted look of the tents gave me a moment's fright, for I feared that the party had gone. Tolfrce explained, however, that some had ridden out to Moran Point and the rest had gone down Hance's trail So I breakfasted, and then took a look at Albert Cullen's Winchester. That it had been recently fired was as plain as the Grand canyon itself. Throwing back the bar, I found an empty cartridge shelL still oily from the discharge. That completed the tale of 6even shots. I didn't feel absolutely safe till I had asked Tolfree if there had been any shooting of echoes by the party, but his denial rounded out my chain of evidence. Telling the sheriff to guard the bags of the party carefully, I took two of the posse and rode over to Moran's. Sure enough, there were Mr. Cullen, Albert and Captain Ackland. They gave a shout at seeing me, and even before I had reached them they called to know how I could come so soon and if I had caught the robbers. Mr. Cullen started to tell his pleasure at my rejoining the party, but my expression made him pause, and it seemed to dawn on all three that the Winchester across my saddle and the cowboys resting nonchalantly on the revolvers in their belts had a meaning. "Mr. Cullen," I said, "I've got a very unpleasant job on hand, which I don't want to make any worse than need be. Every fact points to your party as guilty of holding up the train last night and stealing those letters. Probably you weren't all concerned, but I've got to go on the assumption that you are all guilty till you prove otherwise.' "Aw, you're joking,' drawled Albert. "I hope so, "I said. "But for the present I've got to be English and treat the joke seriously. " "What do you want to do?" asked Mr. Cullen. "I don't wish to arrest you gentlemen unless you force me to," I said, "for I don't see that it will do any good. But I want you to return to camp with us. " They assented to that, and, single file, we rode back. When there, I told each that he must be searched, to which they submitted at once. After that we went through their baggage. I wasn't going to have the sheriff or cowboys tumbling over Miss Cullen's clothes, so I looked over her bag myself. The prettiness and daintiness of the various contents were a revelation to me, and I trinrLtojnj; them .hack, aa natlr &f I

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Had touiia 1 m-iu. cut 1 ctian't Know much about the articles, and it was a terrible job trying to fold up some of the things. Why, there was a big pink affair, lined with silk, with bits of ribbon and lace all over it, which nearly drove me out of my head, for I would havo defied mortal man to pack it so that it shouldn't muss. I had a funny little feeling of tenderness for everything, which made fussing over it all a pleasure, even while I felt all the time that I was doing a sneak act and had really no right to touch her belongings. I didn't find anything incriminating, and the posse reported the same result with the other baggage. If the letters were still in existence, they were either concealed somewhere or were in the potxession of. the party in the canyon. Telling the sheriff to keep those in the camp under absolute surveillance, I took a single man, and, saddling a couple of mules, started down the trail. ' We found Frederio and "Captain" Hance just dismounting at the Rock cabin, and I told the former he was in custody for the present and asked him where Miss Cullen and Lord Ralles were. He told me they were just behind. But I wasn't going to take any risks, and, ordering the deputy to look after Cullen, I went on down the trail. I couldn't resist calling back: "How's your respiration, Mr. Cullen?" He laughed and called, "Digitalis put me on my feet like a flash." I said to myself, "He's got the most brains oi any man in this party." The trail at this point is very winding, so that one can rarely see 50 feet in advance, and sometimes not 10. Owing to this, the first thing I knew I plumped round a curve on to a mule, which was patiently standing there. Just back of him was another, on which sat Miss Cullen, and, standing close beside her, was Lord Ralles. One of his hands held the mule's bridle, the other held Madge's arm, and he was saying, "You owe it to me, and I will have one, or if" I swore to myself and coughed aloud, which made Miss Cullen look up. The moment she saw me she cried, "Mr. Gordon ! How delightful !" even while she grew as red as she had been pale the moment before. Lord Ralles grew red, too, but in a different way. "Have yon caught the robbers?" cried Miss Cullen. "I'm afraid I have,' I answered. "What do you mean?" she asked. I smiled at the absolute innocence and wonder with which ehe spoke and replied, "I know now, Miss Cullen, why you said I was braver than the Britishers." "How do you know?" I couldn't resist getting in a side f hot at Lord Ralles, who had mounted his mule and sat scowling. "The train robbers were such thoroughgoing duffers at the trade," I said, "that if they had left their names and addresses they wouldn't have made it much easier. We Americans may not know enough to deal with real road agents, but we can do something with amateurs." "What are we stopping here for?" snapped Lord Balles. "I'm sure I don't know, " I responded. "Miss Cullen. if yon will kindly pass c s. and. tben ifLrrd Rallej will follow

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Liquid Koal Lice Klllor . When diluted with water In the proportion of one part Liquid Koal to fifty parts water it is the beat Lice Killer on the market. It is not expensive to use because It forms a perfect emulsion with water in this proportion.

Ilartington, Neb., Dee. 10, 102. Dear Sirs: I am a user of Liquid Koal and am well pleased with It. Would not try to do without It. aa I ' find it useful In a great many ways. I have had no sick boga since I commenced using It a year ago. In my opinion It 1 the beet and cheapest hog cholera preventative on the market today. You can use thia as you wish. Anyone wishing to know more about this please write to me. KNOCH ELY. and Guarantood by you, we will go on to the cabin. I must ask you to keep close together." "I stay or go as I please, and not by your orders," said Lord Ralles. "Out in this part of the country, 1 said calmly, "it is not good form foi an unarmed man to argue with one who carries a repeating rifle. Kindly follow Miss Cullen." And, leaning over, I struck his mule with the loose ends of my bridle, starting it up the trail. When we reached the cabin, the deputy told me that he had made Frederio strip and had searched his clothing,' finding nothing. I ordered Lord Ralles to dismount and go into the cabin. "For what?" he demanded. "We. want to search yon, I answered. "I don't choose to be searched," he protested. "You have shown no warrant, nor" I wasn't in a mood toward him tar listen to his talk. I swung my Winchester into line and said: "I was sworn in last night as a deputy sheriff and am privileged to shoot a train robber cm sight. Either dead or alive, I'm going to search your clothing inside of ten minutes, and if yon have no preference as to which condition you are. in when it's done I certainly haven't. " That brought him down off his high horse that is, mule and I sent the deputy in with him, with directions to toss his clothes out to me, for I wanted to keep my eye on Miss Cullen snd her brother, so as to prevent any legerdemain on their part. . One by one the garments came flying through the door to me. As fast as I finished examining them I pitched them back, except welL as I have thought it over since then I have decided tnat 1 did a mean thing and have regretted it. But just put yourself in my place and think of how Lord Ralles had talked to me as if I was his servant, had refused my apology and thanks and been as generally "nasty" as he could, and perhaps you won't blame me that, after looking through his trousers, I gave them a toss which, instead of sending them bark into the hut, sent them over the edge of the trail. They went down 600 feet before they lodged in a poplar, and if his lordship followed the trail he could get round to them, but there would then be 100 feet of sheer rock between the trail and the trousers. "I hope it will teach him to study his Lord Chesterfield to better purpose, for, if politeness doesn't cost anything, rudeness can cost considerable, " I chuckled to myself. My amusement didn't last long, for my next thought was, "If those letters are concealed on any one, they are ou Miss Cullen. " The thought made me lean np against my mule and turn hot and cold by turns. A nice situation for a lover! CHAPTER VL THE HAPPFMXGS DOWN HXSCE'S TRJUi Miss Cullen was ' sitting on a rock apart from her brother and Hance, as I had asked her to do whea I helped her dismount. I went over there and said boWIv: (To Be Continued.) PanatTjcm Went Atts Pay.