liddle babies, they are foonfl".

Dayton tolms her hoznfis and says:

"Hinette, answer me this: If your babies were fauna, would you thon—~—e;u1fl you ~-care for me“.

Aflinofto looks at him and her head slowly drops in oooenfi, but before hos Joyous arms can onfold her. she brooks awgy ,

"Hon, non, m'sieu, I have promise myself, I shall know

no joy till first I have found my hobby. finznniotz. Bon soirfi

She fiurns and runs from the barn tooood the house.

Dayton makes a movement fio follow her, then stops, his hanas clinch

Vod.

”I‘l1 find fihem, if I have to spend the last moment of my life in the effort and every cent I possess".

‘\ I

Minette, running from Dayton fi;§&$s toward the house passes the corrals, whore Whispering Joy hos kaon talking a moment since to the Indian girl, to whom he has been very ugly, and who has moved off sadly, with her baby on her back. is Minotte passes, Jay Jerks up and sli ying into the shadow of the born. he follows her unseen, She ioaches the back part of the ranch house, and is about fio step up to one verandah when Joy, whirling his lariat throws it swiftly xkxnax above her hoofi, It slips down fio her shoulders, pinioning.her arms. She ant starts to run, but the rope drags her forward to Jaw, at the end of it, and he pullou her into his arms, smothering her

cries, with his lips upon her face. vainly, the ‘f;e1‘ri:E"o& girl,