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The men were divided into watches, so that there was not an hour of 'the day or night when some of them were not on guard, whilst no work was un. dertaken which .could lead the de fenders to any distance from their base, On the first day after the departura of the posse, shots were heard over the hog's back, and Jim, who made a reconuaissance in person, reported that a band of Chilcotens was killing cattle, but.though the loss inflicted would be serious, he would not listen to Anstruther"s suggestion that an at tempt should be made to drive off the marauders. = He was determined that the story 4 of the burning.stacks should not ba repeated. It was 'better to lose anv- thing than to. expose the women to the danger of a rush upon the house, On the second day 'there was not even the sound of a shot to keep up the vigilance of the defenders, and the scouting party sent out by Jim re- ported all clpar to the sky line. "Our people have driven the In: dians clear out of the country," as gerted Anstruther. "Arson af night is the limit of their daring. It is not likely that. such miserable devils would make a stand against' armed white men.' . But Jim thought otherwise, and de creed the destruction of certain barns and outhouses beyond the corrals, A affording dangerous cover for an at tacking foree. They are valuable buildings in & country where lumber is uot ds plenti ful as it is at the coast, and Mrs. Roit watched the destruction of them with a sore heart. "It seems a pity, doesn't it?' she said, as she and Kitty, with Anstrg- ther, watched Jim and his men at work, "but 1 suppose Jim is right." "He must be," asserted Anstruther, but his tone belied his words. "It would be a terrible sell if {he Indians really had gone for good, as Mr. Anstruther thinks." "We could put up with that, Kitty don't you think, although I conf that I don't like seeing my buildings "Why don't you tell Jim to let them stand till Mr. Rolt comes back? You tell him, Mr. Anstruther." "1? Secarcely, Miss Kitty. Jim is commanderdn-chief. I am only the in valid, 1 am nat even hounored with a place on xuard." "Jim does not think you are fif for duty yet, Bnd you know thet you ar: not." "I know that I am fit for very ditvle, but 1 should like to try to be of WPme use if the adteirable Jim would lst me," sald Mr, Anstruther, "He gives you the place of honor as our speeinl guard, sir," "Yes, he 1s good enough to consider me fit to be left with~in cherge of Mrs, Holt smiled. She understood what he would have paid, and aid not make allowances either for the irra. tability of an invalid, or the Impe tience of a man put at a disadvantage in the eyes of the woman he loved. "Try to put up with us yet a little while," she sald, "Dick will be back soon, now." Kitty said nothing until he had left the room, ther she turned to her "I think Jim treats Mr. Anstruther pretty badly." "Badly? What do He sees that he has the best of every- thing, and never asks him to do a band's turn. What more can Mr. An- struther expect?" "1 think he would rather have less tion as an invalid and more work as a man." . "But he can't do anything." "Jim omight let him try." "At any other time, yes, and so no oubt he Would, aad do' his work for you mean, Kitty? ple's feelings just did, I don't think your friend is show- ing to advantage. We have done ail We can for him, ahd now he sulks." Kitty flushed to the temples. 'She knew that there was more than a shadow of truth in Mrs. Rolt's charge, but her sympathies were with Frank, though even to her he had been cur. ously cold and distant since Jim's her life had Kitty's bright more sorely tried than d days of peige. She had been all her life to have men for her playmates. Now she had no pl ; She 'had not even a lover. Binice his return to the ranch Jim had. Watched over her and Mrs. Rolt with the most unfailing courtesy; had for- gotten nothing; had forestalled every wish; and e to ther had been courtesy itvelf; but avoiding any tration, he had kept t tance. had her patient. Everything that a man could do to show his gra titude Frank had done, but in some undefinable way he had drawn him- self further away from her every day, until to" the poor little woman, the Jaye that had been so nearly spoken Seemed Dow but a dream of her own. ich of the men seemed bent on leaving her to the other. She detest- ed Jim for his many perfections, and could not jove Frank because he sim- Ply would not let her. To this , Uncomfortable state ot Things Ditie Ron returned, acquiesc- ng in - Combe bad made. "1 did not Year down the stables un- tl you: : g think that the Indians are still likely aks trouble." the arrangements which | ought to go other buildings if yeu |: - "They may be here any minute, They are too strong to sit down un- der the dressing we gave them, There must be fifty armed men at least, and they know that there are only four of us, and one of us wounded. How is Al now?" =~ "Oh, he will do al right. It was only a flesh wound. He has lost a lot of blood, but the old chap says 'that he has plenty moss. But if we tear down the stables: what are we going to do about the horses®" "Turn them loose to rustle for them- selves, and take their chance of being shot. We can do nothing else." "It won't do to leave ourselves with out horses. We might have to ride for our lives, after all." "It can't come to that." "It might, Rolt. Think of the wo men." Rolt groaned. "I'm never thinking of anything else, Jim. What do you advigh*" 2 "Well, if you ask me, I should knock out a partition or two, and make the dining-room 'and one of the others>dnfo a stable, It will play' the devil with the house, but we can Tix. that 'up again when the trouble' is over. If you sdy the word 'I'll have fééd "brought/M, and horses for the ladies and half the men." "Why half? "We can't manage more, and we shouldn't want them. If it comes to a show down séme of us will have to stay to hold the Indians whilst the others get through." "Whicl horses shall we bring in?" "Mrs. Rolt's, Miss Kitty's, your own, that stallion (he will have mended by now), and two more. The two sorrels I should think are best." "What about Mr, Anstrutherfs bun- ter?" "His looks won't pay for his keep. fe ain't the horse for this job. aren't going fox hunting or hurdle jumping, and he'd play out before he got half way. The country breds are the only ones that could stay the dis- tance." "I think you staying powers." Anstruther had underrate my horse's come in unobseréed and heard the last remark, and though very calm in Speech, he was very white and his eyes glittered angrily. "Maybe, 'but I wouldn't have thought him any more good for this job than them things you was hauling out: of your trunk for Miss Kitty to look at. All right in the shires, no doubt, horses and pink coat, and pa- tent leather pumps, but not built tor business," retorted Combe coldly. Anstruther flushed and bit his lips. To pass the time during the giege he had been overhauling his trunk, and at the moment when Jim came upon them he had been showing Kitty Clifford a red coat which he had broyght 'with him at her request, for the Yancy-dress ball at Victoria. But he left Combe's semark unan- swered. Instead of a direct reply he Ked Rolt if, as no Indians were in sight, he did not think someone might get through to Soda Creek to send down the road for help. "4, was thinking of it, and mean to send some one as soon as it grows dark if the coast ig still clear." "Then, sir, it you will allow me, J) ean save stable room. for Nudd. 3 1 will take myself to.Soda Creek to- night " "Nonsense, Anstruther. You could not ride half the distance. Your ach dent" to hold Peside which the between the two men, whilst it annoyed him, was intelligible , "Very well, Anstruther, Il consk der what you say. We shall not ghe sending anyone for an hour or two. Let Mr. Anstruther's horse be brought in instead of mine, Jim," and with that he turned his hgck on the pair of them and went upstairs to the What transpired 'there is not re- corded, ig whilst Anstruther was making preparations, the fog be- gan to close in around the ranch, Ruddy-gors was led into the disman: tied dining-room, and two figures, Hicks of old Toma sua the elder Fair clough, rode away, the one to wards Soda Sa and the other to wards the Franklyn Ranch, to bring help. if possible. "We are in a serious position, and they were the best men to send," was the explanation which Rolt vouch safed, and thereat Tr, for twenty-four hours, Anstruthef ely opened hie mouth to anyone. < CHAPTER XXIV, A sullen gloom settled uppn the house and on thé prairie outside the Bouse. Jim and Austruther barely spoke to one another, and both of them did their best to avoid Kitty, whilst 'the 'pinés in the brule stood waist deep in'.the fog and long col ublnng of mist. rose from amongst the trees" like vapors from a witch's caal dron. : : ~But for two whole days no Indian. We with success. Every night, at least three differ ent iumates of the ranch stole out to £0 over the defences. There was al Ways some one whilst no one was looking. The blow fell in the third night. The whole prairie land had been swallowed up in gloom in which no Star showed, no wind moved, when Mrs. Rolt woke her husband with a gentle pressure of his arm, "Don't make a noise, dear," she whispered, "but listen. 1 suppose it is only a rat" } "Not even that, Polly. It must have been your fancy. Go to sleep, little Woman, and don't worry" But at that moment a low knock spunded on the bed-room door. In- stantly Rolt rose and opened it. Jim fowbe was 'there with his rifle inchis band. : "Bring your gun along, Rolt. They are trying to fire the house." In silence the two crept down the stairs, at the foot of which stood An- struther, Old Al and Jack Fairclough, with their Winchesters in their hands. The doctor was ndt there, but Jim led the way into & small room which jutted out from the face of the house, & room which they had laughingly christened the excrescence. Rott had built it on as a conservatory for his wife, to connect with Ms own study. Both sides of it, ag well as the top, being of glass, it was the weakest point in- their defences, and in it, therefore, had heen piled more than its share of furniture barricades. It formed the foot of a letter L, of whieh the main front of the house was the stem, This room was in absolute darkness when the men entered it, but it seem- ed to Rolt that something stirred feebly in the corner of it. Presently a voice, barely audible even fo their straining ears, whis- pered: "Are you there, Jim?" Combe moved silently across to- wards the voice. "Put that in your pocket: for me, will you, old chap, until we've played this hand? Are you ready, now? Has each man picked his panel? Never mind the glass, Ready!" There followed a faint scratching, and then a feeble blue flame appear: ed for a second, after which a great and lurid red light lit the whole con- servatory, and flooded the front of the house, showing up with 'the utmost distinctness the piled furniture, the crowded and broken limbs of Mrs. Rolt's favorites, and the figure of the doctor behind a soup plate filled wit some stuff to which he had set fire® But the five men had no eyes for these things. In front of them, all along the face of the ranch house, they saw bundles of faggots piled, and amongst them a score of figures momentarily arrested in their work by the sudden illumination. The Chilcotens had seen this Chi- nese fire the Christmas before, but it 2ad been lighted then to amuse them: aow it clung to their cn Ching fig- res, bathing them fin its i deous glow, wd betraying them to the rifles, ¥hich suddenly opened fire upon them. When the roar of the Winchesters wd the 'crashing of the glass had sub sided, and the Chinese fire had died lown to a dull red glow, which hung 'or a time on the face of .the fog, 'here were a dozen of the Chilcotens #ho could not have .crawled away to iave themselves from the conflagra- don which they had come to kindle, "Let's get out of thig quick, for heaven's sake!" cried Combe, cough- ing from the fumes of the chemicals. 'Lend-a hand to clear away these fag gots. We can't leave them there." Following his example, they dll icrambled out, and swiftly ang in lence removed the faggots to a dis- 'Ance, The fog shrouded them nolested them. "Now get back, and don't pili np the barricade till I come." As the others obeyed Jim went on his knees and Iaid a fire with more rapidity than he had ever Iald one in his life. Another man might have struck match after match and trusted to chance, but even then Jim was meth- odical, breaking the little twigs and laying them in closed packed bundles, 80 that when the small star of light appeared it grew steadily, and still the watchers could his fire and making sure that the flames had made good their hold. Then a shot was fired from the fog, the faggots rattled and flew fh all directions, and Combe came running, almost on his hands and knees, to the barricade. But the fire had caught bold, and-as soon as the men in the excrescence replaced the furniture and. made good the gaps, great tongues of flame roared as they climb ed upwards, "We can't help that. They can see to shoot now as well as we can, but they won't come close whilst we have that light. Tell the women to keep away from the windows. and let each man watch from behind something solid. Don't spare the cartridges. Al?" "I'm here." Z 3 "Get round to the back and witch out there. I guess you can gee In the dark better than most. Where's the doctor?" No one answered. "Doc! o! Doc!" Jimdicried, but there was no reply. 3 "Did any of you see him outside? We haven't left him out, have we?" "He wasn't outside, Py he knew - enough to keep in out of the rain," d and no one Ask Your Doctor All run down, easily tired, thin, pale, nervous? And do not know what to take? Then go direct 3 yr doctor. Ask his opinion er's non-alcoholic rifier, a nerve tonic, a strong alterative, an aid to digestion. Let your doctor decide. Myleizd:C tierce. : a ho Fairclough, win detest. ed the doctor, whose butt he bed al ways been. > "He knows 8 good deal now, 'mongst other things, what a blanked tool you are! . Poor old chap!" hing vet on te floor. Wi "Thank vou, Anstruther. bis feet? Here, Rolt, strike Hight. We've got to chance you |' a H arnace See the McClary dealer or write for booklet, $id For] Water pan is filled without removing. SOLD BY J. B. BUNT & CO, . 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