and Hance, as I had asked her to do when I helped her d

, I want tho

xpressions. She made a mistake to do that, for I knew her innocence must be f

anner about as genuine as her innocence, "unless you

se and grief and disbelief into the four syllables t

ook at my position. I'm being p

ent your being a gentl

riedly, "I'd rather be burned alive than do what I've got to

en't?" she cried, indignantly, ass

honor that those letters are

," she

een so easy for Miss Cullen to have said so befo

u give me

t she didn't look me in

to believe she had them, and looking back now, I think it was her manner. I stood reflecting for a mi

ed, has acknowledged that she has the letters, and says t

adly. "I don't care about myself, Mr. Gordon, but can't you keep her o

mised. Then he and Hance went into the

ly, "you have those letters

ld you-"

ted her by saying, "I trapped your brothe

replied, calmly, "or else he didn't k

ction, but I said, "You must give me

e cried, rising and l

s no button-only an awful complication of hooks or some other feminine method for keeping things together-and I grew red and trembled thinking wha

d burst into tears. "Oh! oh!" she sobbed, "I begged papa not to, but he insisted they were safest with me. I'll give them to you, if you'll only go aw

impossible he tried to get them to sell or hire a pair, but they didn't like the idea of riding into camp minus those essentials any better than he did. While I waited they settled the difficulty by strapping a blanket round him, and by s

ers. As she did so she crimsoned violently, and looked down in her mortification. I was so sorry

s Cullen, that I don't think we either of

, and, after a p

conduct as you can, for I can't tell y

is sister, I announced that we would start up the trail. I hadn't the heart to offer to help her mou

rizona-one of the directors of the K. & A. and also of the Great Southern. With this clue, for the first time things beg

roxies for the K. & A.

e won but for the three blocks of Eastern stock that had promised their proxies to the G.S. Rather than lose the fight, we a

h the risk?"

Missouri Western and into California Central. The G.S. wants control

s driven to pretty desperate methods to keep from being crushed, and when one is fighting an antagonist that won't regard the law, or rather one

the death of one of the M.W. directors, who held eight thousand shares of K. & A., got us in this hole, for the G.S. put up a relation to contest the w

remarked, and asked, "Why didn't you burn t

ght that by keeping these we might cook up a question as to whic

hmen," I inquired

e guns and masks, and concealed themselves on the platform of the mail-car. Here they had been joined by the Britishers at the right moment, the disguises assumed, and the train held up as already told. Of course the dynamite cartridge was only a blind, and the letters had been thrown about the car merely t

Going to Oxford may be all right for the classics

n Lord Ralles dismounted and showed up in his substitute for trousers there was a general shout of laughter. Even

Flagstaff, he didn't question my opinion. I ordered the stage out, and told Tolfree to give us a feed before we started, but a more silent meal I ne

e reached the half-way ranch about eleven, and while changing the stage horses I roused Mrs. Klostermeyer, and succeeded in getting enough cold mutton and bread to make two rather

ents were hung," Frederic whispered; "and she's been crying to-night over tha

m of the stage. "It's a long and a rough ride," I said, "and if she wakes up they may g

n-hearted over it," he continued. I looked Frederic in the face as I

ith evident affection and pride, turning back

would appeal to any man. It made me gulp, I'm proud to say; and when I was back on my pony, I sa