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a-going to get him, an' get him alive, 

 if it takes all my natural days. I think 

 I kin do it alone, but I know I kin do 

 it with you," and deep in Kellyan's 

 eyes there glowed a little spark of 

 something not yet rightly named. 



They were camped in the hills, 

 being no longer welcome at the ranch ; 

 the ranchers thought their price too 

 high. Some even decided that the 

 Monarch, being a terror to sheep, was 

 not an undesirable neighbor. The cattle 

 bounty was withdrawn, but the news- 

 paper bounty was not. 



" I want you to bring in that Bear," 

 was the brief but pregnant message 

 from the rich newsman when he heard 

 of the fight with the riders. 



u How are you going about it, Lan?" 



Every bridge has its rotten plank, 

 every fence its flimsy rail, every great 

 one his weakness, and Kellyan, as 



