Steve Yeager

essly. He crouched as he ran, dodging in zigzag little rushes. Voices pursued him, fierce an

o cover, the rush of feet padded down the sidewalk. Stealthily he crept to the fence, vaulted it lightly, and found a more secure hidin

the first excitement of the chase was over, few of them wanted to risk a battle w

the street warily into United States territory. By alleys and back ways his feet took him to Johanson's stable. Noiselessly he crept toward it from the rear. Some one was inside

irled, revolver in hand. "Who

"Glad you made it. We'd better light a shuck out of here

s busy saddli

" jerked out the boy, a strangled sob

t voice. He did not intend by an expression of sympathy to aid in any breakdown h

and swung to the saddles not a minute

moment. I'm the sheriff. The

his shoulder Steve looked back. The sheriff was standing undecided. Before it

for the clicking of the hoofs. Yeager t

clean getaway, looks like. But they'll keep

, I couldn't help it. What else coul

to Mexico. My advice is for you to get into a hole and dra

les-when I'

are Phil

you?" flas

other. I'm a rider f

ison. Chad will get me o

ss the line they're going to call this by an ugly name-if Men

n the darkness at the other man. "He's got friends," was the dry, noncomm

he border. Was the man tied up with old Pasquale? Or was he an agent of the Huerta Government? Just now the Federals had control of this part of the border. Did the boy mean that it was among them that Harrison had friends

t gray stirrings of dawn, long before

rst place they'll look for you w

. I'll lay low there. Tell Chad when you see

ay. When Steve was awakened by the sound of some one stirring in the

on as the actor was going into the dining-room. The big m

ng our eyes a rest fo

There's a friend of yours on the haystack in the pa

gilist narrowed. "

Seym

here?" demanded

Steve turned on his heel and w

chorus of exclamations. What was he doing back so soon

had come back for the supplies of war. They joked him unmercifully, even Daisy,-who was manifestly incredulous

lingered to see Ruth, who

you alone,

doubtful and apprehensive. "In

rgola shortly after Yeager. Manifestly her fears ha

ft on the heels of th

es

le ... again?"

out in the pasture. He want

in the hearts of herself and her moth

"There was some trouble-just across the b

ed terror. "You

w," he answe

t, please,-the circu

st say this-the shooting was force

thing dreadful would happen. Mr. Harrison pr

a crook. He's been using your love for Phil as a

aped to her face. "How dare

the truth. Can't you see he's been leading Phil into deviltry? You're afraid of

l's friend. You're agains

at, nothing a-tall. My system can absorb a licking without bearing a grudge. But he ain

e say it was you that was with Phi

es

r throat. "You come here and make trou

mpestuously and went fl

ad read somewhere that they were capable of injustice. She had pl