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To prove that she was a wole, utterly unconscious that he was the cause, regarded her in astonishot a fit," he said to Wallie, who hurried forward

"He's scared her out of her wits," declared Miss Mercy, glaring at him

"Me?"

"You! You're a careless driver I don't believe you understand horses, and I shan't ride any further with you"

"Red" jammed the whip in its socket and wrapped the lines around it Springing over the wheel he stood by the roadside and declared defiantly: "I'm quittin' Hate to leave you in a pinch, Wallie, but I take sass frole dudes, anyhow I tried to be entertainin', and this is the thanks I git fer it"

"Nobody asked you to talk," Miss Mercy snapped at hiested that he and Pinkey exchange places Pinkey consented reluctantly, and "Red" clion with a dark look at the "fee of horses, while heabout "fixin' her"

By ten-thirty food was the chief topic of conversation, and everyone was keeping an eye out for Hicks and the "grub-wagon" At eleven the hilarity had simmered to monosyllables, and old Mr Penrose, who always beca with his face screwed up like a bad youngster that is being carried out of church for a spanking in the vestibule

"I'm so weak I can scarcely sit in the saddle!" Mrs J Harry Stott snapped at Wallie as if she held hi!" declared Mrs Budlong She also looked at hi bitterly that the cook had been allowed to get so far ahead that they should all perish of hunger before they could overtake hialloped ahead as if he were pursued by hostile Indians to see if he could see Hicks, and galloped back again to say that he could not

At twelve the ani on" The Happy Fahtened ilirew al bread on the lowered tail-board of the wagon, where the lunch aiting for them

The spot he had selected could not truthfully be called ideal, viewed fro hot, reflected the glare of the mid-day sun as painfully as a mirror None, however, had the temerity to offer any criticis since properly subjugated even the rambunctious attorney