The Law-Breakers

at Amberley. Hot as was the dry, bracing air, it was incomparable with the blistering intensity of heat reflected from

matic conditions of the moment. Even the droning of the worrying mosquitoes had no power to disturb him. Like everything else unpleasant in th

hinking deeply; perhaps dreaming, although dreaming had small enough place in his busy life. His lot was a stern fight against crime, a

etched away in a dead straight line toward the distant, shimmering horizon. For miles ahead the road was un

e was coming from the direction of the only building upon the platform-the

nt, Huntly, who controlled the affairs of hi

flurry of unus

s she's in the Broken Hills, an' gettin' near Whi

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reight. Ain't even a 'through.' I tell you, these sort have emptied a pepper box of gray around my head. Ye

you told me she'd be

s well as distrust in

in' to schedule. Guess Ananias must have been the

olished riding-boot tappe

fixed and held the iron

thority which never deserted him for long. "I can rely on tha

d, and his eyes still shone

re's too many chances for that-seein' we're on a branch line. There's the track-it might give way. You never can tell on a branch line. The locomotive might drop dead of senile

r sharply. "You are sure about the tra

rinned hard

ibition territo

rrepressible love of fooling, half good-hu

nk before sundown, so I guess I'l

he other's face, which had abruptly tak

t mighty close to the wind swilling prohibited li

unity offered. Usually he lived in a condition of utter boredom. In fact, there were only two things that made life tolerable for him

rt of the Canadian prairie lands, was a handful of highly trained men pitted against almost a world of crime. Perhaps the lightest of their duties was the enforcing of the prohi

him. Under its influence the bettering, the purification of life in the Northwestern Territories had received a setback, which optimistic antagonists of the law declared was little less than a quar

d hated the fact, that his own duty required that he must give any information concerning this traffic upon his ra

en't the right to souse liquor? Think we're goin' to suck milk out of a kid's feeder, just because you boys in red coats figure that way? No, sir. Guess that ain't doin'-anyway. I'm sousing all the liquor I can get my hooks on

es surveyed the man w

first trip, my friend, and you won't talk of penitentiary so-easily." The quietness with which he spoke did not rob his words of their significance. Then he went on, just a shade more sharply. "Now, see here. When that freig

e purpose lying behind his calmest assurance. The agent knew that his protest had touched the limit, con

isted into

ch to the imagination, in

away. He replied

f the particular penitentia