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Murphy. isn't it?” “He’s the one I'm starting utter first and outright at his rl¢t hand win decide whether he il'tnbe the hit ll mummmmfi. mwfimmmm; mmmumuummumuuu "m Wfimmumm MkWWWMmewmxum uuuwumwm Mmmm unmmmmma d“ «mm. . m u mm M. meumwm tum! run: 7:70 u» ueét be. at the vpnu ctr! who occupied tho m ”4m mMmm mm mm, mwm mmmm um «mum “mu m m.wwmmmm m.um u w ammMHMmm revenge. mm a swung" she remarked. quietly. "You never used» to be that "y." 1'- “Good m, Hulda, do you think I’m low down mouth to so out. hunting tint poor chums ' to get even with him for W m me with a mu: Why, are 20 other: who have done .5 much, and we have been the best of friends afterwards. 0h, no. mo. fl: mane more than that. an! harks hint may 1 m year. I told you I now [mart on hi: hood I would hover forgot-43% I‘ 11w that wk first 15 your: ngm Thin ll 1 duty I owe a friend. 1 dead friend. to mm m oath this murderer. Do you undenund now? The fellow who did thnt shooting up at Bethune 16 years 13o Ind the same sort of a mark on naught hand as this one who killed Slavin. That's why I’m after him and when I ouch up he’ll either-equal or die." "But how do you know?” “I never told you the whole new and I don't mean to now until I come luck and can make everything per- fectly clear. It wouldn’t do ya: any good no way things stand now. and would only make‘ you many. But it you do any praying over it. my girl. pray good and hard that I may dis- cover some means for making that fel~ low squeal." She Mao pone but atood gazing momma! y past him. "Huve you heard anything )gtely, “I never sumo-ed you would look {CW 1mm met) nonwouttuaomurmm gully. “Shooâ€"luau mm He .3an with madam unreleuneu. “No; m n 1. most Kho- litheymwulnhthmeuyum flu. Crook’u column. - I luv. just hard. wu Mid-buy “not“ n with fluently. o:- I". I on: not ”out [I- hm lam the Savant to ”malt-ultimatum: a All um mum (cl-gotta mm dun-ammmflomggxuu, mthwflp-udhowm than mm! with his on. not ”on tau-dimmed. “01:. Bob. ! hat-v no to in you an.” the sobbod. enu- in; to him. “No one coma Inn been more to me than you have been, Ind you ire t“ I hun‘lott in the world. Everything I are for goal any from me. Lite 1. so hard, so lard!" “Yes. little girl. I know," Ind the man stroked her heir tenderly. hi.- on: voice faltering. “We on herd; I learned that and lesson long ago, but I‘ve tried to make it I little hit easier tor you since we first come together. Still. I don't see how I can possibly help this. i've been hunting liter that fellow a long while now. 1mm:- 0! 15 years over a mighty dim trail, and it would be a mortni sin to permit him to get away soot-tree. Besides, it thin stair only manages to turn out right. I can promise to make you the hop- piest girl in America. But, Nnida, dear, don't cling to me no; it in, not at all like you to break down in this fash- ion." and he gently unclasped her hands. holding her away from him while he' continued to use hung-ll! into her troubled face. “Sometimes 1 feel just like u cov- nrd, Bob. It’s the woman ,0! It; yet truly I wlsh to dowhutever‘ you be- lleve to be best. But, Bob. I need you In much, and ’you wlll come back. won't you? I shall be so lonely hero, tor-101- youmtrulyulllhuolnth. world.” With one quick, impulsive motion he pressed her to him, pmlonntely fining the tan from her lowered lakes, mm. longer to conceal the "Never. never doubt It. hale. It will The voice Ind the cementum? ring not teke me lone, end I! I live I come of mum-y authority, and the soldier etrelght beck.” operator instinctively dropped nu feet He watched her slender. white- to the floor. robed figure :- It weed “only down “Well. my led, you ere not dumb, the deserted street. once only she are you!" named end waved back to him end he The telezflmhet’l momentary he!!- “Donald, I Lovo You.‘ Hampton-atom. mwmwwmbdono mtam-mumuutmumm' mummmmm- may recognised his «bow: vul- “WC“. Billy." w Hampton'- trund- W m “m the! hem you tur- I! but with inn and rum 0! m’ then an?" “Nuthln' blu' .. it m," m (h. Wu! may. “Martina; now a: Means. no mu: m was than“. bottled up In thus]: Horn country." “Oh. that's it? Thu mybo you lint mm to m]: L moo-use through for no in Fort A. Lincoln without discontinuing Uuoio Sm?” um! Baum pinned 3 coin upon tho mush mm. “Sure; write it out." "Hero it in; now got it on only, my I“. uni bring the mower tom over It the hotel. Thero'u be mother yol- lo' boy waiting when you come." . Fort A. Lincoln. June 17. 187.. Hampton, Glencnid: » Seventh (one went: prohnbly Yeliow- none. Brent filth them. Huron . 30v- ernxnent scout. nt Che ,enne we! n orb den. . . BITTO . Co n3. ' He cmhed the paper in his hnnd, thinkingâ€"thinking oi the put. the present, the future. He had borne much in the” hot yearn. much min- repreoentation, much loneliness of am]. To run this Murphy to cover mined his m1 hope for retrieving those deed. dn'rk year's. Ay. end there was Nelda! Her future, scarcely lea then his own. hung trembling in the balance. The sudden lashing at tint name into his brain was like an elec- tric shock. He cursed his inactivity. Great God! hnd he become 3 child min. to tremble before imagined evil. a. mere hoh‘xoblin of the mind? had elready vested time enough; now he must wring from the lips of that misshapen savage the lust Vestige 0: hi: secret. He Med for the med, for hard. exacting-service. buckling his loaded cartrimvbeit outside his rough coat and testing his revolvers with unusual care. lie spoke a. few parting words of instruction to M21011!!! and went quietiy out Ten minutes later he was in the male, galloping down the dusty stage road toWard Cheyenne. CHAPTER XXV". The Trail of Silent Murphy. The young blgatrymu who had been «10th for 3 important nerv- lce of telegraph opentor at in the Cheyenne ofllce, his feet on the rude table, his face hurled behind u new»;- paper. A ' "Could you Inlet-m me when I might and Silent uni-p111, I. govern- ment scout?” ‘ The reply ”rived some two hours .mon val-had: ml emce- at I no. but In gone.” his animator» annoy-filmtomurmhuo! unto. atom: m not sum ummmmmmomm “How-am “The devil known. 30 Mo norfi. Will dispute»- tot Custer.” “0h. three or [our hm can.” Hampton over. sunny but tonfi U. behind his enacted tooth. “When In Outer!” “Don't km exactly. Sumo-ct! to be with Terry and Gibbon. on. when mu tho oath of the Pond". uthougbhtlnyhnnldtthmby thin mu. moving dm the Yellow- uo‘nc. Inn-vhf I odor- Inn to later- cept his column when but... the Ranch“ ad a» 318 Ron. No other scout “on; this border would at. such c am. But up old devil o! I Inn-uh! Just «Jon-Inch c trip. Boctcr‘cdolubcppytpcvul so. nuamtlovutotm.udtb better put of the distance. they tell no, It's Mighty rough country tor night work But then Murphy. to how- the I” ill rid". Sorry you didn'toomeuongamtlo mlhr.”ho and. mum. “no you In" I» play?” “I‘m not quite certain. Did you happen to notice a po'cnlhr buck m on the'bcck of m: rim hand?” _ In a lowly little hamlet neu- Pitt»- field, Massachusetts. are two (grocery stores between which the": is little or no choice as to attractiveness. The writer waited in one of those stones on a summer afternoon until. called for by 5. farmer landlord. During": (cred that store. Farmers galore drove up to its pomls, deposited an Order dip with one of the untidy clerks, and thcn staiked away on other crtnndz. Pethapa a plow was to‘be‘ mended at the black. smith 3%. 0.“ mama to“ tithing at the wet-0M, or an muse. pack age was waiting at the depot. Smite times a man would hand in the order with this warning “Ma‘says she éon‘t want any more of that there â€"â€"â€"-‘ coi- fee. Thelma was no good at all. And if you’re giving away premiums today with any brand pf tea, she’d like to u{ a pound and get a‘new vinegar crflet.’ ' Th: farmer landlord dcpositéd an or- der, and hurried away. When he can): hack the order had been packed into a‘ soap box and was ready for storing in the rear- of the spring Wagon Further acquahm with the farmer landlord's wife Mud her to be a wonderfuny '6apablc housekeeper, who scrubbed her When floor daily, :5de her help {qr milling h few drops of cider app}: fiance on the pantry shelf, and person- ally scatdcd her miik tins every day; yet she said she did not have time to get acquainted with her gr.ocer To be sure she did not express it just that way. What she did say was: “Father docs moat of the trading. I never go to town except to church. There’s mythirg to see at the stores in ."--Woman’s Home Compan- “How hr will In In" to ride?” “0h. “bout «0 miles nun Cl Fathet Doe- thc Trading. (To 5: (variant)