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Pinkey was out of the bunk at a bound and around the corner of the cabin, where his suspicions were instantly verified

"It's a bull!" he shouted "I thought it Looks like a thousand head of cattle tramplin' down your wheat-field!"

Wallie turned sick He could not move for a moment His air-castles fell so hard he could al?" he asked, weakly

"Can't tell till daylight" Pinkey was getting into his clothes hurriedly

Wallie was now in the doorway and he could rain-field

"What'll we do?" he asked, despairingly

"Do?" replied Pinkey, savagely, tugging at his boot straps "I'll send one whur the dogs won't bite hie We'll run a thousand dollars' worth of taller off the rest of 'em Git into your clothes, Gentle Annie, and we'll smoke 'em up proper"

"I don't see how it could happen," said Wallie, his voice treood!"

"If it had been twenty feet high 'twould 'a' been all the same," Pinkey answered "Them cattle was drove in"

"You mean----" Wallie's ht when I seen that bunch ht you was alone and wouldn't ketch on to it"

"He'll pay for this!" cried Wallie, chokingly

"You can't do nothin' with hiot too nawin' on hi up a homestead----"

"That, too, but mostly because Helene dressed him down for sellin' that locoed team to you He's jealous"

Even in his despair Wallie felt pleased that any one, especially Canby, should be jealous of him because of Helene Spenceley

"He aims to marry her," Pinkey added "I wisht you could beat his tiot any show, but if I was you I'd take another turn aroundon Whenever I kin," kindly, "I'll speak a good word for you Throw your saddle on your horse and step, young feller I'one!"

The faint hope which Wallie had nursed that the dareat as he had feared vanished with daylight Not only was the grain trampled so the field looked like a race course, but panel after panel of the fence was dohere the quaking-asp posts had snapped like lead-pencils

As Pinkey and Wallie surveyed it in the early dawn Wallie's voice had a catch in it when he said finally: "I guess I'ood job of it"