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He stood for so enviously that his life was dull and uneventful, and that he must seem a poor stick to the heroes and heroines of such adventures He wished that he could think of some incident in his past to match these tales of valour, but as he looked back the only thing that occurred to him was the occasion upon which the laundress had stolen the cooking sherry and gone to sleep in her cheer when the patrol wagon came for her, and he had been the one to hold her feet as she was carried to it At the tiratulated upon the able and fearless ency, but a bout with an intoxicated laundress, though it had its dangers, see affair as co absently through the doorway and co that perhaps he, too, had latent courage which would rise to heights of heroism in propitious circumstances, he did not see Miss Eyester, who had come in the side entrance, until she stood before him

He had not expected Miss Eyester, because she was usually e the winter, and it was only when a well-to-do relative sent her a check that she could afford a feeeks in Florida But Miss Eyester was one of his favourites, and he immediately expressed the hope that she was to stay the entire season, while he noticed that she earing a

Not until then had Mr Cone observed the Montana diaer

"Ah-h?" He raised his eyebrows inquiringly

Miss Eyester nodded

"In January"

"A Western ested playfully

"A stockman"

"Indeed?" A new respect was in Mr Cone's manner "Cattle?"

"Sheep," replied Miss Eyester, proudly "Mr Fripp is herding at present"

In a week Mr Cone was as falorious summer which The Happy Fah he knew the story by heart he still thrilled when Mr Penrose backed the bear up against a tree and separated its jaws until it " attention to the recital of the intrepid spinster ould have given battle to a hungry coyote if it had attacked her, as he did to the account of Mr Stott's reckless courage in putting to flight a notorious outlaho had hired out as a cook for some sinister purpose