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" GOOD-BY, SWEETHEART." 



"* No, I confess I wouldn't, though I was mad enough when I flung the lasso to 

 strangle him." 



" You came pretty near doing it as it was." 



"We ain't in this country to capture Africans," remarked the Texan thoughtfully, 

 *' though the public is anxious for anything worth seeing in that line. It spent a 

 great deal in seeing the Siamese twins and the Sacred Hairy Family of Birmah." 



44 We might exhibit you and this fellow; he as the wild man of Bechuana Land, 

 and you as the one who prevented him killing me." 



"I'm afraid the people wouldn't take much stock in him, and as for me, they 

 would set me down as a fraud right off." 



THE TEST. 



" Well," said Mr. Godkin, with another laugh, " I have made up my mind what 

 to do." 



"What's that?" 



" I turn him over to you to do what you please, without hindrance on my part." 



The director understood what he was doing. No one knew the nature of the 

 gallant Texan better than he. He had proven himself a demon in more than one 

 hand-to-hand encounter with the red men of the Southwest, and in the memorable 

 campaign against those miscreants, there was no braver scout and soldier in the 

 commands of Generals Crook and Miles than he. 



And yet his was the heart of a woman. No ear was more open to an appeal 



