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by <jack London Authoq Of 'The Cal l Of The W/La "fV/f/rE Fang* "Mapt/nFdenFtc. Illustrations By Dearborn Melvill (Copyright. 1910. by th. New York Herald Company.) (? op> right. 1*10. by tlw M*< Mtllan Company. The ffssagf man laughed and shook his head "No; I'm s tolegraph operator. But the wife end I lootoel to take a two years' vacation, and . . . here we are. nut the time s about up. "m going hack Into tbe office this fait after 1 get the grapes off " As Daylight listened, there came to him a sudden envy of this young fel? low living right In the midst of all this which Dsyltgbt had travel* d through the last few hours. "What la thunder ars you goin'< back to the telegraph office for?" he demanded. The young man smiled with s cer? tain wlstfutness. "Because we can't get ahead here. . . (he hesitated an Instant), "and because there are added ex? penses coming. The rent, small as it Is. counts; snd besides. I'm not strong enough to effectually farm the place. If I owned It. or If I were a real husky like you. I'd r.sk nothing better. Nor would the wife " Agsin the wist fal smile hovered on his face Tog see. we're country born, and after bucking with cltlos for a few years, wo kind of ggel we like the country goat. We've planned to $et ahead, though, snd then some day we'll buy a patch of land and stay with it." . Daylight could not persuade him aelf to keep to, the traveled roads that day. and another cut across coun? try to Qlen Ellen brought him upon a canyon that so blocked his way that ho waa glad to follow a friendly COW path. This led him to ?i small frame cabin. The doors snd windows were open, snd a cat was nursing a litter of kittens In the doorway, hut no one ?jgoaiod at home. He descended the trail that evidently crossed 'he can? yon. Part way down, he met an old man coming up through the sunset. In his hand be carried a pall of foamy aallk He wore no hat. and In his face, framed with snow-white hair and beard, was tbe ruddy glow and con? tent of the passing summer day. DsyltgM thought that he had never seen so contented looking a being "How old are yon. daddv?" he quer? ied "Elghty-four." was the reply. "Yes. eighty-four, and spryer than "You n,*ist a' taken good care of yourself." Daylight suggested. "1 don't know about that. I ain't loaf* I walked across the plain h with an ox team and fit tgjuni Ig '51. snd 1 was a family man with seven youngsters. I reckon I was as old ' ii are now. or pretty nlrh on to It ." "Don't you find it lonely here?" The old man Hhlfted tbe pall of milk and reflected "That all depends." he said oracul? arly "I ain't never been lor.ely ex? cept when tbe old wife gMed Some fellers sre lonely In s crowd, and I'm one of them. That's the only time I'm lone'y. Is when I go to 'Frisco. But I don't go no more, thank you *saoat to death. This Is good enough for me. I've been right here in this ?alley itaOS '54?one of tho first set tiers sfler the Spaniards." The old man chuckled, and Day? light r< de on. singularly ?it peu^e Hh himself snd all the world. It seem? d that the )ld contentrrent of trail and ggasp he had known on the Yukon hsd come hack to hlrn Me could not aaske from Its eyes tlM p'cture of the old pioneer coming up the trail through Ige sunset light. He was cer? tainly going son.e for e'ghty-four. Tho thought of following hU example en? tered Day'lght's mind, but the big riv of Ban Francisco vetoed the CHAPTER XII. Instead of returning to tho city on Monday. Dayllshf rented 'ho butcher's horse for another day and crossed the bed of the valley to : ts eastern hills. As ? t the previous day. Just for he )ov f It go follower1 c.Vtlo trulls at haphnnrd and W Of hag h* i WgJ up to? ward the summit*, f'omlng out gpgg a wagon road that let upward, he fo! lowed It for several mile*, sjnejrgtgj In s small, mountain-encircled valh * wh? re half :? <! >r u |*>r>r raw-he farmed the w|gs>sjfgajgg gg the iteen Slopes lb-yor.d. the rOgd pitched 1 p ward Dense i Yip irr:il covered the exposed hil bui I" the creases of the rivoim huV vpnuc If ??-< grew, slid 1114 oats and flowgrg, l^ile In the gftgfBjggg I broko through, and followed n grofl defined trsil gown a dry cany >n The dry canyon g.tv? \ 'nee to or e with a der Ighfegg oi tunning waft. The trail ran Inb ? w.*? | t I. ?' th wood-road ( no * ? d serosa a small 11 ' upon u slightly t gv/glog cogntrj I There we e tu. farms In tall hl R ate ? ? ? . h >u . The I was getgfJSr. ?h? bed rock . hh. to Ihp ggffgce or constituting the I r fsce ?taeH * ' and scrub r?ek, gsrwei pr , 1 .in d ?.l.<1 willed rood on ?'?her side vlfh i lu?? rffe. And out a runway throu growth s msn /?r,ddr"te < - Mr S un I*. D-vlne, formerly < ? in a way that reminded Daylight of a rabbit. He was a little man, In patched overalls; bareheaded. wlth>.a cotton shirt open at the throat and down the chest. The sun was ruddy-brown in his face, and by It his sandy hair was bleached on the ends to peroxld blonde He signed to Daylight to halt, and held up a letter. "If you're going to town. I'd bo obliged if you mall this." he said. "I sure will." Daylight #put It into his coat pocket. "Do you live here? abouts, stranger?" Hut the little man did ncl answer. He was gazing at Daylight in a sur? prised and steadfast fashion. "I know you." the Utile man an? nounced "You're Elan Harnish? Burning Daylight, the papers call you. Am I right?" Daylight nodded. "Well, I'm glad 1 wrote that loH ? this afternoon," tUS little man a on, "or else I'd have missed seeing you. l'v?3 seen your photo in the i a? pers nr*ny a time, and I've a g< memory for fuces. I recognized you at once. My name's Ferguson." Do you live hereabouts?" Daylight repeated his Query? "Oh, - yes. I've got a little shade back here in the bush a hundred ya;al> and a Pratt] g, andsa few frui' trees and berry gushes. Come in and take a look. And that spring i> I dandy. Yon never tasted water like it. Come la :-nd try It." Walking and leat log his horse, D light followed quick-step] eager little man through the gret n tria.BSj and emerged abruptly upon iho clearing. If clearing it might be ca'!< 1, when? wild nature and man's earth scratching were ir.extrlc ably blended. It was a tiny nook in tho hills. | . o tected by the steep walls of a canyon mouth. Here wore ,vn! large oaks. I vhlencing b. richer sol.. The ere*-'. D of ages from the K'llside had slowly formed th's deposit of fat earth. I n der the os'ts, almost buried ir. tht ?What Do You Think of It, F.h?" stood a rough, uopalnted cabin, the wide eerenda' of which, with chair aad hau.rhocks, advertised an Out dOOfl bedchamber. Daylight's k? D eyes took In everything. The Clearing was Irregular, following the patches of the lest soil, and every fruit ire and berry bush, and even each v< 1 bibb plaint, had the water personally conducted to it. The tiny Irrigation channels were everywhere, and along somf of them thi- water was running. Fergi son looked eagerly into bil visitor's face for s'uns of approbation 1 What do you think of It, eh?" "Hand*roared and manicured, ove-v bit ad tree." Daylight laughed, but the jov a:id sntb-?';n t' n that shone in his eyoi contented the little man. "Why, d'ye kno\w, I know every < | i of those trees as if they were aon Ol mine I |?antcd tie rn, nursed thorn, fad them-, and brought them up. Com. ou aid peep at the ..pling." "It's sure g hummer." was Daylight* verdict. aft< r tiue Inspection and. sam pllng, as they turned back for the how ? Tl ? interior 0/1 I a SUrpriBO. Tl ? gOt ging heir-.; done |f] tie small, b : ? ? bttt ben, ti.e whole cabin f( rm< I 1 large llvhigreom. A greal 'able In the middle *ai comfortably littered with hooks and magazines. All tho avallal le wgM space, from wall lo c< II Ing. was occupied by UM? d boo! shelves it seemed to Daylight th>' i a i? d novel seen so mans books i <? re'.tbled hi one place S1 lv- ol wild rat '? ooti ni d ib r I iy sbt il on the Ipine board lh? r. Daylight found himself charmed and bmide curious i<y tb< little man, why \ a-* he bldhlg away here In the chl ? nrral, he and his books? Bo It wa . uhen betwot n them thoy n id ? ? ? and wiped the dish | and pul them away, and hi d settled dow n to % com? fort able smoke, thai Daylight pul bis question. "Look- hero. Foren on. Every since we moI together, I've been casting glncer ?>n the freight between Sum! nbout to find out what's wrong witn you, to locate a screw loose some? where, hut 1*11 be clanged if I've suc? ceeded. What are you doing here, anyway?" l-Yrtmson frankly showed his pleas? ure at the questions. 'Tint Of all." he began, "the doctors wound up by losing all hope for me. (lave BBC a few mouths at best, ami that, after a course in sanitariums' and a trip to Europe and another to Hawaii, 'rhey tried electricity and forced feeding ami faitlng. t was a graduate of about everything in the curriculum. They kept we poor with their h?ls. while 1 vent from bad to worse. The trouble with nw was. two* ' fold; first I was a born weakling; and i next, I was Hying unnatrra'ly?loo I much work end responsibility and strain. T was managing editor o* i the Times-Tribune in San Francisco, j and T wasn't {frone, enough tor the strain. Of course mv body went back ; on me, and mv mind. too. for that mat ntr. it had to be bolstered up with j whisky, which wasn't i'ood for it any more than wg| the living In chits pnd hotels good for my stomach and the rest of me. So T quit, cjnit every? thing, sbgolu+ely. and came to live in the Valley of the Moon?that's the i Indian name, you know, for 8iononig I Valley. I lived in tbe lean-to the r>rst year: then T huiU tbe cabin and sent j for my hook?. 1 never knew what hap i piness was before, nor health. Look at me now and dare to tell me that I ! iueg fOitv-: evn." "I wouldn't give a dry over fort! H Daylight confessed. "Yfct the day I came here i I.?. ' Here Was a Man Who Laughed al City, Dwellers and Called Them L.Lnr.tic3. nearer sixty, and that was fifteen years ago." i They talks 1 E? ng, and Daylight looked at thq world from new angles. Here Wai I man, neither bitter nor cynical, who laug] cd at the city-dwell? st d called them lunatics; a man who did not care for money, and In Whom the lull for power had lorn; : lnce died. it waa got until ten o'clock thai Daylight parted from Ferguson. As he rode along throngh the starlight, the idea came to him o| bttjing the ranch Of) the oi.ier aide Of the valley. There was no thought In ids mind of ever Intending to lh ? on it. His game was In Ban Francisco. But ho liked the r nu b, and as soon as he got hack to the office he would open up negotia? tions with Hillard. Tho time patted, and he played on. at the gam< . San Francisco's atti tude toward Daylight had undergone change. While b . with his slashing buccaneer methods, was a distinct menace to the more orthodox hi.un? cial gamblers, he wai nevertheless1 so grave a menace that they were glad enough to let him alone. He had al? ready taught them the excellence of letting a sleeping dog He. Dede Mtton Wgl itlll in the office. He had made no t tore overtures, dis CUlted no more books, He had no active Interest In her, and she was to him a plea tnt nv mory of what had ? never happened, a Joy, which, by his essential nature, he was barred front ever knowing. Yet, While his interest had gone to sleep and bis energy was consumed in the endleat battles he waged, he knew every trick of the light on her hair, every quick definite mannerism Of movement, every line of bar Bgure as expt unded by her tailor made gowns. Several times, six months or so apart, he had Increai ed her salary, until now she was receiv? ing ninety dollar* a month, lleyoml thle he dart d not go, though he got around it by making the work easier. Th|i he bavj accomplished after her fei im from a vacation, by retaining her tubttltute at an asslttanfc Also, i a bad changed his office suite, so that i ow tlu> two girls had a room by them elvt The more he aaw of her, and he more he thought ho knew of her, he in ne unapproachable did she teem to him But since he had no In i ntlon ol approaching her. ti is was anything bul an unsatlsfactor) fact. He was v.!":<l he had her In hifl Ofllc ai (] hoped tl e'd ttay, and thai w ;! .i!. ?ut all Daylight did nol Improve aiih the passing years. The,life was not good for him. He a at groa Ing stout ai i i oft,? and there was un i nted flabhl? n< in hta muscles. The more he drank oOcktnll . the more ho was com* polled to drink In order to gel I h< d< i lied n suit, t Ik Inhibitions I h U eased htm down from the eonct > pitch ol ? i suffered fron from Ini i< oi and Qlbson, h (Ions, his moral libers were weaken- I ing. Never a man to hide anything, I some of his escapades became public, such as speeding, and of Joy-rides in his big red motor car down to San Jose with companions distinctly sporty - incidents that were narrated as good fun and comically in the news* papers. CHAPTER XIII. One Sunday, hue in the afternoon, found Daylight acros3 the bay in the Piedmont, bills of Oakland. As usual, he was in a big motor car, though not his own, tho guest of Bwiftwater Bill, Luck's own darling, who had come down to spend the ch an-up of the sev? enth fortune wrung from the frozen Arctic gravel. It was a merry party, and they had made a merry day of it, circling the bay from Ban Francl co around by San Jose and up to Oak? land, having been thrice arrested for Speeding, the third time, however, on the Haywards stretch, running away With their captor. Fearing that a tele? phone message to arrest them had been Hashed ahead, they had turned into the back-road through the hills, and now, rushing In upon Oakland by a new route, were boisterously dh>? cussing what disposition they should make of the constable. "We'll come out at Blair Park in tea minutes," one of the men an noitneed. "Took here. Bwiftwater,, there's b cross-road right ahead, sritts lots of gate. , but it'll tsfcc us bat < country into Berkeley. Then we can ? oak ,;ack into Oakland rrom th* i er side, bucak. across on u.c i^. , j n; ?1 send tho machine bnok around tonight with ttc chauffeur." But Bwiftwater Bill failed to see why he should not go into Oakland by way of Blair Prrk, and so decided. The next rr.oment, hying around a bend, the back-road they were not going to take appeared. Inside tho gate, leaning eat from her laddie and just closing it. was a young woman on a chestnut sorrel. With his first glimpse, Daylight felt there was some? thing strangely familiar about hi r. The next moment, straightening up in the saddle with a movement be could knot fail to Identify, she put the horse into a gallop, riding away with her back toward them. It was Dede Ma* ron?he remembered what Iforrtson had told him about her keeping a rid? ing horse, and he was glaiLshe had not seen him in this riotous company. Intervening trees at that moment shut her from rlew, and Bwiftwater Bui plunged Into the problem of dis? 1 posing Oi their constable, while Day- 1 light, leaning back with closed eyes, was still seriv Dede Mason gallop off do- n the count' y r .ad. On Monday men.ing, coming in for dictation, he looked at her with new interest, though he gave no sign of it; and the stereotyped busine passed off in the stereotyped way. Put the following Bunday found him on a horse himrelf, across the bay and rid ing through the Piedmont bills. He made a long day f it, but no glimpse } did he catch of Dede Mason, though he even took the b ick road of man:. gates, and rode on into Berkeley, it had been a fruitless day, so far as she was concerned! and yet not entirely fruitless, ft r he h 1 enjoyed the open Mr and the In r.~?? under hin? to such p?rpose that, on Monday, his instruc? tions were out to the dealers to look j for tho best cfcertnut sorrel that money could buy. At odd times during the week he examined numbers I I chestnut sorrels., tried several and vsas j unsatisfied. It was not till Saturday ?hat ne carne upon T,oi>. Da^Usjhl knew him for what he wanted the mo- i ment he laid eyes on him. A large horse for a riding animal, he was none too large for a 1 -i4-r man like Daylight j In splendid condition, Pob's coat Inj the sunlight was a flame of fire, his i arched neck a jewelled conflagration. Daylight examined the mane and found it finer than any horse's hair I he had ever seen. Also, its color was unusual in that, it was almost auburn. While he ran his fingers through it, Bob turned his head and playfully i BUZZl< 1 Daylight's shoulder. "Saddle him up, ?and I'll try him." he told the dealer. "I wonder if he's U < d to spurs. No English saddle, mind. Give me ^ good Mexican and a curb bit?not too severe, seeing as he likes to rear." Daylight superintended the prepare* ttens, adjusting the curb strap add the Btirrup length, und doing tho t inching. Ho shoo1: his head at the martingale, but yi Ided to the dealer's advice to allow it to go on. And Bob, beyond* spirited restlessness and a :? a playful attempts, gave no trouble. Nor In the hour's riding that followed, save for Borne permissible curveting and prancing, did he misbehave, Di?y. licht was deljghted; the purchase was Immediately made; and Bob, with rid? ing r and personal equipm at, was ill pat cht 1 across the bay forthwith l i tai.o \ j* his Quarters In 'he stables of tho Oakland Riding Acader y. *: be n< xt day being Bund ly, Day U; !.t wa.a a', y e.-riy, cross! g on tho ferry and taking with him Wolf, the l ader of his Bled team, the one dog which he had selected to bring with . Im wht n he 1? fl Alaska. Que t as be would through the Piedmo: t hills and lu I:? rkt a \ I ? lyligbl sau not!. rig of ! . de Mason and ht r cht I uul boi rel. ) ui be had 111 I le th te ror disappoint i ent, f r his o" a ch< il n it k< pt him ? * is the net k, did notbin glueer on passenger trains 58f and S-^VeH, Boh," he addressed the ani? mal, at the same time wiping the sweat from his own eyes, "I'm free to confess thru you're sure the blamed* est ali-iired quickest creature I ever saw. I guess tho way to fix you Is to keep the spur juat a-toucblng- ah! you brute!" For, the moment the spur touched him, his left bind leg had readied for? ward in B kick that struck the stir rup i\ sm rt t ow. Several times, out of curio:!ty, Daylight attempted the spur, rv.{\ each time Bob's hoof landed the stirrup. Tin n Daylight, following the horse's example of the unexpected, suddenly drove both spurs into him and Pea< bed him underneath with the ' quirt. "You ain't never had a real licking before." he muttered., as Deb, thus rudely jerked cut of tho circle of Ids own Impish mental processes, shot ahead. Half a dosen times spurs and quirt ' 1 't into him, and then Daylight settled down to enjoy the magnificent gallop. No lorr/er punished, at the end of ? < half mile B b cased down into a fast canter. Wo!f, toiling the rear, was ' catching up, and everything wa*2 roing nicely. And when, at last, Daylight decided that tbe horre had had I enough he turned him around abrupt? ly and put htm Into a gent'e canter j 0*1 the forward track. After a time, he reired In to a ston to yee if ho "ere breathing painfully. Btanding for n minute. Boh turned his head and ru'ttiled hl? rider's stirrup in a Dgutsh Impatient j ay. as much as to j intimste that It w&n time they were "Well, I'll be pb mb gosh darned!" was Daylight's com :ent. "No Ill-will, nosSrudge, no no?! ing?and after thr.t lambastlngl You're sure a hummer, Rob." He had taken a liking to the animal, and repented not c his bargain, lie realized thai Boh w is not vicious nor mean, the trouba being that he was bursting With I rl iriis and was en? dowed with more an the average horse's intt-Ili -< . Ii was the spirits j and the Intelligence, combined ah Inordinate rogulbuness, that made him what he Mas. What was required to, control him was a strong hand, with tempered sternness and yet with the requisite touch of brutal dominance. | Throughout the week Daylight found : himself almost ar. much Interested in ? Tob on in Dede; and,.not being in the thick of anj big (i?a!s, he was prob? ably more Interested In both of thera than In th" bus! ess game. Dob's ? trick of Whirling was of special mo- - rnent to him. How to overcome it ? that was the thing Suppose he did meet with Dede out in tbe bills; and suppose by s< me lucky stroke of fate. | he should manage to be rhling along? side o! her: then that whirl of Dob's It V7a< Dede. would he nWt dl concerting and em? barrassing. He was not particularly i anxious tor her to Bee him thrown for- . ward on Bou's I ? <-k. On the other hand, suddenly to leave her and go dashing down the back-track, plying quirt and spurs, wouldn't do, either. ? What was wanted was a method wherewith to prevent that lightning whirl. He must stop the animal be fore it n>t arour-d. The reins would not do this. Neither would the spurs. Remained the quirt. But how to ac complish it? Boh always whirled tc the right. Very well. He would double the quirt In his hand, and, the Instant of the whirl, that double quirt would rap Bob on the node. The hors( aldn't live, after it once learned the lesson, that would whirl in the faci of the doubled q liit. ?.Toro keenly than ever, during that week In the office, did Daylight realise hat be had no social, nor even human contacts with Di d< . Tue situation was u '\ that l ? i oul ' not ask her the tp!c? < a lion whether or not sht 1 ; . ling .'..;? t\ j.ext Sunday. ThUI ho i mnd a < ? her ?ard In the hand te'mad god had dealt him. Dow Ira portant that card was to become b< !d not dream, yel he decided thai it \,as a prettj g< od card. Sunday came, and Bob, oul In th< Ph in, nt hills, behaved like an angel ilii goodness at times w a of th m i prancing order, bid other I > . srer, bul he ? i d straight ahea< | 111 he heard the t orse behind cheek ' running between Bumter and to a walk Then he glanced over hi* shoulder. It waa Dede. The recogni lion waa quick, and, with her, accom d by surprise. What more aatural thing than that, partly turn lug is borse, be should wait till shf cauj bt up with him; and that, when reaat, they should continue abreast on up the grade? He could have sighed with relief. The thin* was accomplished, and so easily < (tings b d been exchanged; here v?'. . i(h> bj side and going in the sa " direction with miles anc mil 1 ah. (I of them. He noted that her eye was first lor the her -: snd ne> t for him. "On. what a beauty!" she had crieG rt sight of Bob. From the shining light in ber - yea, and the face fi?ec* with delight, he would scarcely hav? belli red that it belonged to the younfs woman he br.d known In the office the young woman with the controlled ?ubdued ofr.ee face. I didn't know you rode." was one of her first remarks. "! imag nee you uric wedded to geCrthere-ejuicl machine?.'" Thus, and to his great relief, ihe> launched on a topic of mutual inter I He to!d her about Dob's tricks rr.l of the whirl and his scheme tc evercom it: arvl she agreed that horses had to be handled with a cer tain rationdl severity, no matter how n a I ?nie loved them. There was Mab which she had had lor eight years and which ch^ had had to break qi i II kick!] a Hie- process had beec ' ? ul lor Mat, but it bed cured her i've ridden a io\" Daylight i. can't leuiember the G ti i ' OU B he .a .*' she told him. "l was 01 ? on ranch" you know, an I they cculdVt keep me away from the he l I And thereat ?he told him more of her ranch life (n the days before her fath< . ? d. And Daylight was hugely p ed with bimse f. They were get? ting acquainted. The conversation had not lagged in the full half hour they had been together. *vhen she talked, he li u ?' ad followed her, ?<i: d > ; ill the while he was follow? ing his own thoughts and impressions a.s weh. It was a nervy thing for her to (io. iIiis riding astride, and he didn't /.now, alter all. whether he liked it. or not. His ideas ot women were prone to be oMUfasbii .ad; they were the ones he had i;ul Ibcd in the early day, frontier lifo of his youth, when no woman was 'ten on anything but a sidesaddle. He had grown up to the tacit fiction tie t women on horseback were not hi pi ds Tt came to a with a shock, this tight of liar zo manlike in her . aoaie. sut ? c rate ror.-eas ""aax mo sight looked good to him just the same. CHAPTER XIV. Another Sunday man and horse and dog rovtd the Piedmont hills. And nga'ii Daylight and ""Kao rode togeiit er. Put this time her surprise at Meeting him was tinctured with sus? picion; or rather, her surprise was of another order. The previous Sunday had been quite accidental, but hfS appearing the second time among her favorite haunts hinted of more than the fortuitous. Daylight was made to feel that she suspected him, and he. remembering that he had seen a big rock quarry near Plair Park, stated otfhand that he was think irg of buying it. His one-time Investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head?an idea that he decided was a good one. for it enabled him to suggest lhat she ride along with him to inspect the quarry. So several hours he spent in her company, in which the was much the same girl as before, natural, unaffect? ed. Hsht-hearted, smiling and laugh? ing, a good fellow, talking horses with unflagging enthusiasm* making friends with the crusty-tempered Wolf, and expressing a desire to ride Pob, whom she declared she was more in love with than ever. Against his better judg? ment. Daylight rave in, and, on an unfrequented stretch of road, changed saddles and bridles. r ?^ -I Could Ride With One cf the Clerks Without Kcmark, but With You? No." 'H< lie's ceased lightning,' ! W :i>. I . .. : hi In 'let her to mount She nodded, while Boh pricked uj hi i ears to the knov ledge that ho Inn1 a i (rani ; ler on his hack, 'l hi Ian Came qulckl] enough too quich!\ for Dede, who found herself against Hob's neok use he pivoted around Mid l oltcd lhp other way. Daylight followed i n ber horse and watched. He sea her check 11 aid nal quickly to ? standstill, and immediately, with rel across neck and a decisive prod of Greenville.