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"1 mean that I was a savage till I met Helen Chester and she made a man of me. It took sixty days, but I think she did a good job. I love the wild things just as much as ever, bot I've learned that there are duties a fel- low owes to himself and to other peo- ple, if he'll only stop and think them out. I've found out, too, that the right thing is usually the hardest to do. Oh, I've. improved a lot." "Gee, but you're popular with your. self. I don't see as it helps your looks any. You're as homely as ever-an' what good does it do you, after all? Rhe'll marry that big guy." "I know. That's what rankles, for he's no more worthy of her than I am She'll do what's right, however, you may depend upon that, and perhaps she'll change him the way she did me. Why, she worked a miracle in my at titude toward life--my manner" "Oh, your mapners are good enough they lay." interrupted the other. ou never did eat with your knife." "I don't believe in harakiri" Gilen- ister laughed. "No, when it intimacies with decorum, you're right on the job along with any of them easterners. I watched you close at them 'Frisco hotels last winter, and, say, you know as much as a horse. Why, you was wise to them tablewares and pickle forks equal to a bead waiter, and it give me confidence just to be with you. I remember putting milk and sugar in my consomme the first time. It was pale and in a cup and looked like tea, but not you. No, sir! You savvied plenty and squeezed a lemon into yours, to clean your fingers, I reckon." Roy slapped his partner's wet back, for he was buoyant and elated. The gense of nearing danger pulsed through him like wine. "That wasn't just what I meant, but it goed. Say, If we win back our mine, we'll hit for New York next, eh?" "No, I don't aim to mingle with no higher civilization than I got In *Frisco. ' ['use that word 'higher' like it was applied to meat. Not that I wouldn't seem apropos. I'm stylish enough for Fifth avenue or anxwheres, but 1 like fhe west. Speakin' of modes an' styles, when I get all lit up in that gray "woosted suit of mine, I guess I make the jaded sightseers set up an' take notice, eh? Somethin' doin' every minute in the cranin" of necks, what? Nothin' gaudy, but the acme of neat- ness an' form, as the feller said who sold it to me." Their common peril brought the friends together again, into that close bond which had been theirs without interruption until this recent change in the younger had led him to choose paths at variance with the old man's ideas; and now they spoke, heart to heart, in the half serious, half jesting ways of old, while beneath each whims sical irony was that mutual love and understanding which had consecrated their partnership. Arriving at the end of the road, the vigilantes debouched and went into the darkness of the éanyon behind their leader, to whom the trails were famil- far. He bade fhem pause finally and gave bis last instructions. "They are on the alert, so you want to be careful. Divide into two parties and elose in from both sides. creeping as near to the pickets as possible with- out discovery. Remember to wait for the last blast. 'When it comes. ent loose and charge like Siotix. Don't shoot to kill at first, for they're only soldiers and under orders, but if they stand--well, every man must do his you 8'pose comes to Dextry appealed to the dim figures forming the circle. "1 leave it to you, gents, If it ain't better for me to go inside than for the boy. 'I've had moré experience with giant powder, an' I'm so blamed used up an' near gone it woulde't hurt if they did get me, while he's right in his prime"-- y Glenister stopped him. "I won't yield the privilege, Come now--to yy matied hol to each side while They away ead Ww the old BEpcet paused to wring his partner's hand. "pd ruther it was me, lad, but if Midas, and he knew crevice it had wore so felt his way ing supply of the every inch of the down the mountain -cautiously along. At bottom of the hill where it ran out upon the level it had worn a considerable ditel through the soil, and iis he crawled on bands and kr His bulging clothes handicapped him so that bis gait was slow and awkward, while the rain had swelled the streamlet till it trickled over his calves and up to his wrists, chilling him so that his muscles cramp- ed and his very bones cried out with it. The into his palms till they ind bleeding, while his knees found every jagged bit of bedrock which he dragged himself. He not see an arm's length ahead without rising, and, hav- ing removed his for greater freedom of the rain beat upou his back till he was soaked and sodden and felt streamlets cleaving downward between his ribs. Now and again he squatted upon his haunches, straining his eyes to either side. The banks were barely high enough to shield him. At last he came to a bridge of planks spanning the ditch and was about to rear himself for another look when he suddenly flattened into the gtream bed, half dam: ng the waters with his body. It was this he had so carefully wrapped L.; fuses. A man passed over him so close above that he imnight have touched him, The sentry paused a few paces beyond and accost- ed another, then retraced his steps over the bridge. Evidently this was the picket line, Roy wormed his way_ forward till he saw the blacker blackness of the mine buildings, then drew himself, dripping, out from the bank. He had run the gantlet safely, Since evicting the owners, the recelv- er had erected substantial houses In place of the tents he had found on the mine. They were of frame and corru- gated iron, sheathed within and suited to withstand a moderate exposure. The partners had witnessed the opera- tion from a distance, but knew nothing about the buildings from clvse exami- nation. A thrill of affection for this place warmed the young man. He loved this old mine. It had realized the dream of his boyhood and had answered the hope he had clung to during his long fight against the northland, It had come to him when he was dishearten- ed, bringing cheer and happiness, and had yielded itself like 'a bride. Now it seemed a crime to ravage it. He crept toward the nearest wall and listened. Within was the sound of voices, though the windows were dark, showing that the inhabitants were on the alert. Beneath the foun- dations he made mysterions prepara- tions, then sought out the office build- ing and cook house, doing likewise, He found that back of the seeming re- pose of the Midas there was a straited expectancy, Although suspense had lengthened the time out of all calculation, he judged he had been gone from his com- panions at least an hour and that they must be in place by now. If they were not--if anything failed at this eleventh hour--well, those were the fortunes of war. In every enterprise, however carefully planned. there comes a time when éhance must take its turn, He made his way inside the black- smith shop and fumbled for a match. Just as he was about to strike it he heard the swish of oiled clothes pass- ing and waited for some time. Then, igniting his punk and hiding it under his coat, he opened the door to listen, The wind had died down now, and the rain sang musically upon the metal roofs. He ran swiftly from house to house, and. when he had dara at the apices the into ti 1008, sharp schist ct were shredded over could slicker move nt, 80 of the _iriingle glowing canis we The foal bolt ¥ He stepped down into the ditch and drew his 45, while to his tautened sonses it seemed thant the very hills leaned forth in breathless pause, that the rain had ceased and the whole night hushed its thousand voices. He found bis lower jaw set so stiffty that the muscles ached. feveling his wea- pon at the eaves of the bunk house, he pulled trigger rapidly, the bang, bang. bang, six times repeated, sounding dull and dead beneafh the blanket of mist that overhung." A shout sounded be- hind him, and then the shriek of a Winchester ball close over his head. He turned in time to see another shot stream out of the darkness, where a sentry was firing at the flash of his gun, then bent himself double and plunged down the ditch. With the first impact overhead the men poured forth from their quarters armed and bristling, to be greeted by a volley of gunshots, the thud of bul- lets and the dwindling whinerof spent | lead. They leaped from shelter to | find themselves girt with a fitful hoop | of fire, for the "Stranglers" had spread in the are of a circle and now emptied | their rifles toward the center. The defenders, however, maintained sur- prising order considering the sudden- ness of their attack and ran to join the sentries, whose positions could be determined by the nearer flashes. The voice of a man in authority shouted lond commands. No demonstration came from the outer voids, nothing but the wicked streaks that stabbed the darkness. Then suddenly behind McNamara's men the night glared turidly as though a great furnace door bad opened and then clanged shut, while with it came a hoarse thudding roar that silenced the rifle play. They saw the cook house disrupt itself and disintegrate into a thousand flying timbers and twisted sheets of tin which soared upward and outward over their heads and into the night. As the rocking hills cessed echoing the sound of the vigilantes' rifles re- curred lke the cracking of dry sticks, then everywhere about the defenders the earth was lashed by falling debris, while the Iron roof rang at the fusil lade. The blast had come at thelr very el bows, and they were too dazed and shaken by It to grasp its significance, Then, before they could realize what it boded, the depths lit up again till the raindrops were outlined distinct and glistening like a gossamer veil of silver, while the office building to their left was ripped and rended and the adjoining walls leaped out into sudden relief, their shattered windows looking like ghostly, sightless eyes. The curtain of darkness closed heavier than velvet, and the men cowered in their tracks, shielding themselves be- hind the nearest objects or behind one another's bodies, wafting forthe sky to vomit over them its rain of mis- siles. Their backs were to tue vigh lautes now, their faces to the center. Many had dropped their rifles. The thunder of hoofs and the scream of terrified horses came from the sia- bles. The ery of a maddened beast is weird and calculated to curdle the blood at best, but with it arose a hu- man voice, shrieking from pain and fear-of death: A wrenched and doubled mass of zine bad hurtled out of the heavens and struck some one down. The choking hoarseness of the man's appeal told the story, and those about him broke into flight to escape what might fol low, to\escape this danger they could not see but which swooped out of the blackness above and against which there was no defense. They fled only to witness another and greater light behind them by which they saw them- selves running, falling, groveling. This time they were hurled from thelr halance. by a concussion which dwarfed ihe two preceding ones, Some few stood still, staring at the rolling smoke bank as it was revealed by the explosion, thelr eves gleaming white, while others buried their faces in their hollowed arms as if to shut out the hellish glare, or to shield themselves from a blow, Out In the heart of the chaos rang u voice loud and clear: "Beware the next blast!™ At the same Instant the girdle of sharpshooters rose up smiting the air with their cries and charged in like madmen through the rain of detritus. They fired as they came, but it was unnecessary, for there was no longer a fight. It was a rout. The defenders, feeling they had escaped destruction only by a happy chance-in leaving the bunk house the Instant they did, were not minded to tarry here where the heavens fell upon their heads. 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