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"It's ninety, with the huoodness knoto look, Wallie could see that both Miss Spenceley and Pinkey were on the veranda and regarding him with interest His pose beca his riding boot smartly with his crop as he stood in full view of the, and a few sauntered over to have a look at hi the others

"Is that the horse you always ride, Wallie?" inquired Miss Gaskett

"No; it's a new one I' to try out for them," Wallie replied, indifferently

"Wallie, do be careful!" his aunt ade horses"

Wallie laughed lightly, and as he went down to room as now at the foot of the steps with the horses he assured her that there was not the least cause for anxiety

"Why, that's a Western horse!" Miss Spenceley exclaimed "Isn't that a brand on the shoulder?"

"It looks like it," Pinkey answered, ruffing the hair then s it "Shore it's a brand" He stepped off a pace to look at it

"Pardon me, but I think you're mistaken," Wallie said, politely but positively "The Acadehbreds"

"If that ain't a bronc, I'll eat it," Pinkey declared, bluntly

"Can you make out the brand?" asked Miss Spenceley

Pinkey ruffed the hair again and stepped back and squinted Then his cracked lips stretched in a grin that threatened to start the: "'88' is the way I read it"

She nodded: "The brand of Cain"

Then they both laughed immoderately