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"Will you shut up?" Wallie looked at hilint in thely, to see what it all meant The battle between h bank In terrified protest the animal snorted, reared, whirled, while the rider plied the quirtof leather, the pain of sharp steel, and the stronger on out, and the tre horse commenced to take the water

Pinkey muttered, as, fascinated, he looked on: "I've no idea that he knows enough to quit his horse on the down-streale up, and be drowned before we get a chanst to snake hiht now"

Cautiously, a few inches to a step, the horse advanced

"There! He's in the boulders! Watch hiht--he's down--no, he's goin' to ketch hiood ol' horse!" Pinkey was beside himself with excitement now "He's lost his feet--he's swimmin'--strikin' out for the shore--too swift, and the fool don't know enough to give hi the bank as the current swept horse and rider down

"He swih--he's playin' out--there's so much mud he'll choke up quick It'll soon be over now" Pinkey's face wore a queer, half-frightened grin "Fifty yards more and----"

Wallie commenced to uncoil his saddle rope

"You goin' to drag hialloped until he was ahead of Canby and the drowning horse Making a aphone of his hands he yelled

Canby lifted his wild eyes to the bank

"Throwsmile came to Wallie's face Very distinctly he called back: "Howyour cattle into my wheat?"

"Not a da about his head to test the loop pro lower at every stroke

"Five hundred!" Fear and rage were in Canby's choking voice

"Put another cipher on that to coveritself rapidly with its effortsno further attempt to swim toward the bank Canby slapped water in its face in the hope of turning it, but it was too late Its breathing could be heard plainly and its distended nostrils were blood-red

Many things passed swiftly through Canby's calculating mind in the few seconds that remained for him to decide