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While he stood trying to realize his good fortune and that he was the owner of as good a pair of work-horses as ever looked through a halter, a figure that made his heart jump came swiftly forward, and with her hands in the pockets of her long motor coat, stopped in front of his team and scrutinized them closely

Helene Spenceley looked from one of the horses to the other She saw the dilated pupils, the abnor just above the eyelid, and they told her what she had suspected

"I a on these horses," she said, turning to Wallie

"Did you want them, Miss Spenceley? I aive them to me They are locoed!"

"Locoed!" He could only stare at her, hoping never again to feel such disuest notion as to what "locoed" hly undesirable And he had been cheated by Canby, who had known of it and advised him to buy them! Such duplicity ithout his experience, and sickened hiht of the 600 he had invested in horses so radically wrong that Helene Spenceley would not take theht which came to solace him as he stood humiliated and panic-stricken was that she resented the dishonest trick that had been played upon him

Canby canored it and said indignantly: "I should have spoiled this sale for you, Mr Canby, if I had seen as bidding on these locoed horses"

Though Canby flushed, he shrugged a shoulder and replied callously: "We all had to get our eyeteeth cut e came to the country"