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"Maybe I can save you," he muttered, as if to himself He appeared

to want to think, but to be bothered by the clinging aro over his body and he seehten,

and the touch of his hands thrilled

Then, white and appealing, Cleve added his importunity

"Kells, I saved your life once You said you'd remember it some day

No!For God's sake don't make me shoot her!"

Joan rose from her knees, but she still clasped Kells She see of his spirit, to understand how in this lad she was for hiood worown better in one way--

worse in all othersI let down I was no man for the border

Always that haunted me Believein him for what he dared not ask She read

his

"I'll show you again," she whispered "I'll tell you more If I'd

never loved Jim Cleve--if I'd met you, I'd have loved youAnd,

bandit or not, I'd have gone with you to the end of the world!"

"Joan!" The naht of his face

then blinded Joan with her tears But when he caught her to hiave her ee of a lie, with all of