gree, but the words of Ulna, who stood dripping and p

s hand, but for some seconds he had neithe

d the hoarse roaring of the maddened wate

f Ulna's message, but realizing his own inability to do or to suggest anyt

ot appear to have lost the power of speech.

, Mistah Sam, yeh kin read it bettah if so

e held it before the fire, Ulna

Tims and himself reached Hurl

t state of commotion owing to a robbery a

o organized law in the place, had formed a vigilance committee to han

y drunk and very abusive. He shouted to every one he met that Mr. Willett had robbed him, and to

I was a witness to Edwards' receipt for the money

have at once in order to clear him of the

!" repe

of paying the money they owed him. The vigilantes at once arrested Mr. Willett and Tom, and they swear they will hang them if they do not prove that Tom Edwards was paid. I saw the money paid

re, "de lettah's dry enough to read. Let's know

down to get the benefit of the

lain why neither Tom nor I can return till you have brought us the receipt which To

Bring it to me with all speed and leave Ulna back in charge of t

of the crime. If the people here knew us well they would not believe this charge for one instant, but they do not, and so we must wait till

One-Eyed Badger.' I cannot but think that these two men are at the bottom of this new trouble, but what their

ar as to the result: only come as so

el Wi

then he read it a second t

groaned Ike, "an' I jest wi

father at once,"

ers-the receipt and deed-and placed them securely

coz it was so muchee stolmy?" said Wah Shin when h

ther day," was the resolute reply, "if I

ght," protested Ulna. "C

ed him out to the plateau be

oes the watery torrents come down with a continued fury, of which the

a?ons and fill the narrow beds between the precipitous banks with wild torrents, that must be once seen be

, all fine types of four human

s the inky blackness of the ca?on like a solid yellow sh

down the ravine with a force that threatened to tear the obs

almness that distinguished all he said, "the valle

red but ma

ighted brand, and, returning to the e

d have fallen sheer down for a hundred feet, but before going half that dis

his mouth, and he could not have uttered a word if th

t way," groaned Ike, "de watah'll

the rocks, even higher than the entrances to the cave, and from this he

ening, but now he came out and crouched at his young master's feet, a

that it would be madness to attempt to cross the ca?on

daylight comes. Let us g

tly sat down on the stones that had

ost trying

-increasing storm and the possibility, or rather the certainty of its danger

outh that he was, gave no thought t

p-turned palms, he looked steadily

her at Hurley's Gulch, and he groaned as he read in the beatin

, it was not in Sam's nature to

to his companions, "and I will s

lna and Ike brought in their blan

after an attempt at desultory talk, his eyes close

was getting on, he would go to the cave opening, and, after whining in a pained way for some seconds

lett that night seemed lik

destroyed the sun, when the grey light of an