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"We'd never see thehtning split them!--who take money to show theuide them once I'd lead theo back and cut off their heads Ha! That would be a satisfaction, noouldn't it?"

O'Reilly agreed sleepily that it would doubtless be a very great satisfaction indeed

"I'ood a patriot as God ever made," the fellow ran on "You can see that, eh? But what do you think? I have a brother, a very blood brother, ould sell himself for a peseta He passed here the other day at the head of a whole Spanish guerrillero" The speaker bared his teeth and spat viciously "Christ! Hoould like to cut his throat!"

The shade was grateful O'Reilly dozed He akened by being roughly shaken, and he found theover hied hite; his expression bespoke the liveliest alarm Loud voices came from the rear of the bohio

"What's the matter? Spaniards?" Johnnie was on his feet in an instant

"No, no! Your senorita!" the asped, "For the love of God come quickly" He set off at a run, and Johnnie followed, a prey to sudden sick roup the center of which was Norine herself, a gourdful of o in the other At first glance there see; he was trying to seize first theher hands and crying, shrilly: "God have --so beautiful! What a pity!"

The two filibusters and the farmer's eldest son, all visibly perturbed, likewise joined in the coround and whimpered

"What's happened?" O'Reilly demanded, breathlessly

Norine turned a puzzled face to hi off the farmer's attack "I can't quite make out," she said "They all talk at once Please ask theo to her lips, whereupon the ranchero, with a yell, leaped upon her and violently wrenched it out of her fingers

Facing O'Reilly, the man panted: "There! You saw her! She wouldn't listen to my wife--"

"Oh, I warned her!" wailed the woman "But it was too late"

"You must tell her what she has done," said the fellow in the stiff hat