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Always on Hand. 15 oe ‘‘'The hull doggoned thing’s knocked in the head!” + ‘Leash yer bull-dogs.”’ ‘He don’t stand no foolishness.” ‘‘T pass!” ‘‘ He kin rake the pile, fur me.” ‘‘Dave’s got a yarthquake to mount this time.” As for Spanish Dave, though he turned pale, he did not wt up his knife. A dull glare of fear and hatred came into his eyes, sup- #anting their murderous glitter of a mement before. Checking all motion, he stared fixedly in the direction whence the mocking voice had proceeded. Seeing that the attention of the bully was now diverted from him, old Jasper Haveland turned to see what manner of man had come so opportunely and so effectively to his aid. In the doorway stood a man of perhaps five ‘eet ten in stature, symmetrical in build, with muscular limLs, tapering at the extremities, appended to a trunk whose slender waist and deep chest indicated a compact yet strong organism. In feature he was comely, a gracefully curving mustache giving him a rather aristocratic appearance. —— a He had the clear eye and confident bearing of a man who had never known a fear. He did not affect the long hair and sombrero-like hat with which the ‘‘ Knights of the Plains” not infrequently seek to distinguish their persons, in unconscious imitation of old England’s cavaliers; nor in his dress was there anything ** loud.” His attitude, however, was evidently studied for effect. He stood resting bis right wrist in the hollow of the left, so that the open palm of his left hand flanked the blue steel- barrel of the revolver which he held in his right. 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