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Stott turned sharply

"What do you mean by that?"

"Just what I said Look at that horse!"

The buckskin's head was hanging, its legs were tre, there was not a dry hair on it and the sas running in rivulets Its sides were swollen at the stirrup where the spurs had pricked it, and the corners of its

Wallie continued and his voice noas savage: "You're one of the people, and there's plenty like you, that ought to be prevented by law froun This afternoon you'll ride in the surrey or walk, as suits you"

Stott laughed insolently

"Oh, I guess not!"

Wallie calo

Stott took a step toward hiht his hip pocket

"Don't you take the saddle off that horse!" His tone wasin the distance passed, slowed up, and stopped a little way beyond the caht be bringing, as in answer to Stott's threat he dropped the cinch and laid his hand upon the horn

"If you think I'----"

For answer, Wallie pulled off the saddle

Stott hesitated for the fraction of a second, then his arm shot out and Wallie dropped heavily from the blow beneath the ear which Stott dealt him

There was a sharp cry behind hiot to his feet sloith his eyes upon his antagonist

"I warned you!" Stott chortled, and he put his hand behind hi

Helene Spenceley was there; her voice had told hie which now controlled hiain Wallie sprang for hihter landed blow after blow on the heavy jahich art and cheapskate! You----shyster and ambulance chaser!" And with every epithet Wallie landed a punch that e; it was not a "nice" thing to do, possibly, and perhaps the "soft ansould have been better, but the ti otten Helene Spenceley's presence, though in any event it would have ht in his mind as he sat astride Stott's chest when Stott went down finally, and that was to nition