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The Heart of the Range And the daughter of Eve at his side knew that he wassoverjoyed and was made glad herself. She did not realize that Eve in- variably employed the same method with our grandfather Adam. He reached across and patted her arm. “Yo’re all right,” he told her. “When we get out of this yo’re goin’ to marry me.’ Her free hand turned under his and clasped his fingérs. So they rode for a space hand-in-hand. And Racey’s heart was full. And so was hers. If they forgot for the moment what dread possibilities the future held, who can blame them? CHAPTER XXVIII ' THE LETTERS UT what was yore idea in coming to Marysville a-tall?”’ “To get that release father signed. I thought it might be in his safe.” “Anybody give you the idea it might be?” She shook her head. “Nobody.” “You got more brains than I have, for a fact. But how was you figurin’ on gettin’ into the safe?” “Oh, I brought a bunch of keys along. What are you Jaughing at? I thought one might fit.” i Keys for a safe! Say, don’t you know you don’t open safes with keys? ‘They got combinations, safes have.” “I didn’t know it. How could I? [I never saw a safe in my life till I saw this one tonight. J thought they had locks like any other ordinary— Oh, I think you’re horrid to laugh.” “I’m not laughin’. Lean over, an’ I'll show yuh—_ There, I ain’t laughin’, am I?” “Not now, but you were— Not another one, Racey. Sit’ back where you belong, will you? You can hold my hand if you like. But I wasn’t such a fool as you seem to think, Racey. I brought an extra key along in case the others didn’t fit.” “Extra key?” *“Surely—seven sticks of dynamite, caps and fuse. Chuck had a lot he was using for blowing stumps, so I borrowed some from his barn. He didn’t know I took it.” “T should hope not,” Racey declared fervently. “You leave dynamite alone, djuh hear. Where is it now?” “Oh, I left it on the floor in Tweezy’s ee. 79 house when I found I didn’t need it any longer.” “Thank God!” breathed Racey, whose hair had begun to rise at the bare idea of the explosives still being somewhere on_ her person. ‘‘What was yore motive of holdin’ up Jack Harpe an’.Jakey Pooley?” - “Was that who they were? I couldn’t see their faces. Well, when I had broken the lock and opened the back window and crawled through, I went into the front room where I thought likely the safe would _ be, and I was just going to strike a match when I heard a snap at the front window as the lock broke. Maybe I wasn’t good and scared. “T paddled into the other front room by mistake. Got turned around in the dark, I suppose. And before I could open a win- dow and get out I heard two men in the front room I’d just left. I didn’t dare open a window then. They’d have heard me surely, so I just knelt down behind a bed. And after a while, when one man was busy at the safe, the fat man came into my room and sat down in a chair inside the door. Lordy, I hardly dared breathe. It’s a wonder my hair didn’t turn white. Once I thought they must have heard me—the time the fat man, said ‘rats.’ Honestly, I was so scared I was alnsost sick.” “But you had nerve enough to try and hold them up.” “T had to. When I found out they were going to rob the safe, I had to do something. Why, they might have taken the very paper I wanted, and somehow later Tweezy might have gotten it back. I couldn’t allow that. I knew that I must get at what was inside the safe before they did. I just had to, so when the fat man got up from his chair and stood in the doorway with his back to me, I just gritted my teeth and stood up and said, ‘Hands up. Spe “My girl, you might ’a’-been shot! “T had a six-shooter,”’ she said tranquilly. “But I wouldn’t have shot first,”’ she added reflectively. Willy-nilly then he took her in his arms and held her tightly. “But I don’t see why,” he said after an interval, ‘yuh had to go off on a wild-goose chase thisaway. Didn’t I tell yuh I was gonna fix it up for yuh? Couldn’t you ’a trusted me enough to lemme do it By own way?” “We had that—that quarrel in the }»? <S) Gomichboo (EO)