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‘same thing. wasted several dollars’ worth of cartridges _ “Tam wondering how you expect tomake but we only succeeded in making the ani- _ Money out here, even if you get a horse?” mals so wild that they never come around — she asked expectantly. in ‘the daytime any more. Why don’t you — “TT don’t figger on the horse helpin’much laugh?” 7 that way, only for moral support. But “Have you still got that gun?” Dal asked _ [I’m goin’ to start makin’ money tonight— — unsmilingly. . if there’s any moonlight,” he smiled tan- Vincie brought out the gun, and Dal €x-— = - talizingly. amined it closely. emer Es) intrigued, ”’ she ocieback: “Treckon you would waste a lot of shells,” ae ~ “You are—what?” he puzzled. “Oh, I - hecommented ironically. ‘The sights have gee. ~You’re interested. Did you ever see been filed until you couldn’t come in a mile = coyotes ketch fish out of that stagnant of anything you aimed at.” # pond?” he asked suddenly. It was obvious to Dal that Hasbrouck “Why, ne. But I’ve often seen coyotes, had given them the gun as a measure of and sometimes a wolf standing onthe bank safety for himself should either of them watching the fish. We used to think we ever take a notion to shoot at him. *) _ could kill them and get the bounty. It is “We seem to have been duped all _ fifty dollars each for wolves, and five for around,” Vincie said drearily. “It looks -__ coyotes. Part of it is paid by the state,and like we are simply a pair of the world’s in- part by the Sheepgrowers’ Association, ” she competents—my father and I.” ee: Peale. . “You’re not,” Dal defended her warmly. _ “That’s a plumb lib’ral bounty. Didn’t “Show me another girl that could stick it _ you have any luck?” out in this God-forsaken country. There “TI guess I might as well make-a full con- ain’t any.” | = fession, though I know you'll laugh at the “Somehow,” she said dreamily, “I have __ foolish things we did,” she laughed, red- a sort of liking for this country after ail. : = ening’ slightly. There is something about it that grips you. “reckon -whatever you done-couldn’t be I’m afraid that T’ll never be satisfied in the as foolish as the things I’d be guilty of if I East again.” | ‘went into your country,” he assured her “Girl, you ought to see a place I know = soberly. about, % Dal declared. “Well, when father cut that canal through — Thereupon he launched into a descrip- to fill the pond we never thought that the tion of his own deserted homestead, care- ie _ spring would decrease, so he made a trip to fully refraining from any suggestion that tes _ Annamucca to buy trout minnows to stock he was personally interested in it. But be- _- the pond with fish. Blunder number one, cause his heart was in his subject he be- a5, _ the minnows turned out to be not trout but came really eloquent. ee Som a unfit for food.” “T’m sure I’d love that slates” - Vincie ~~“ see that fish agent some time,” Dal said when he finished. a promised. Suddenly he colored and walked away — = a “When. the water went down below the without another word. It had just occurred ns canal the fish in the fresh water disappeared, to him that in the telling about his home- but there remained some in the pond, stead he had visioned Vincie as a part of though they are terribly sluggish. They the landscape—more than that, a part of die, and sometimes the water goes down his very life there. Almost viciously he ~ Jeaving them on dry land. We noticed the thrust the idea out of his mind. Although - coyotes hanging around to get these, and for the moment they were associated on _ father bought some traps from a sheepman, terms of equality, he recognized readily ___ but Isuppose we didn’t know how toset them enough the yawning gap between their _ properly, for we never caught anything.” social accomplishments. And at that mo- = takes years of experience to ketch ment he resolved not to tolerate any - + coyotes,” Dal said. thought* with respect to the girl which - “We found that out,” the girl said dryly. shaded ever so slightly into the sentimental. _ £*We gave away the traps, and Mr. Has- At midnight Dal rolled out of his blan- es, 3 _ brouck poe father-a rifle to kill the coyotes kets, picked up his rifle, and walked to the $ - ie er a 8 > e - - . . o, - A. ~~ : > = * (etn = _ *C — a pe ! 7s > = : m¢ 7 _ Z “= « a —— + 2 ow 2, - .. . £ - ° $ “> ie fe = ges «3 - < Es : : : - <.- i <t- ae ._ —_w-- : " . - : _—— ° ee > = = ~ f 0) al ~ 7 how t take her” Both meant exactly the with. We both tried to shoot them, in ee ‘ i box of Sees To. i=" — A ~ ae oie - a “ ’ - be ee t=