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There was that in his voice then which she had heard when he ordered

men

Joan looked her defiance

"If you don't have it on when I cos off!

I can do that You're a strong little devil, and h yet to put this outfit on you But I can get help

If you anger reeak under her, so that she had to sink on the bed

Kells would do absolutely and literally what he threatened She

understood now the changing secret in his eyes One moment he was a

certain kind of a man and the very next he was incalculably

different She instinctively recognized this latter personality as

her ene and

charm to keep his other personality in the ascendancy, else all was

futile

"Since you force me so--then I must," she said

Kells left her without another word

Joan removed her stained and torn dress and her worn-out boots; then

hurriedly, for fear Kells ht return, she put on the dead boy-

bandit's outfit Dandy Dale assuredly s fitted her perfectly Joan felt so

strange that she scarcely had courage enough to look into the