When I was there the other day I heard he was circulating around among the politicians in his quiet way, and I saw him and Pete Leddy hobnobbing together.

Butbut I half promised," he added, his features setting firmly as they had after Leddy had fired at him.

It was already noon when he saw Galeria from the far end of the long basin that he had crossed, with the V as the compass of his bearings, on the ride that brought him to the top to meet Mary and Pete Leddy.

Well, with the use of money and all the influences he could command, including the kind that Pete Leddy exercises, he got the concession and in his name.

Leddy rapped out.

"That is both courteous and merciful; and you are very insistent, Leddy," Jack returned, and walked on.

"But you must fight Leddy!

You must fight Leddy first!"

"I wonder if Leddy thought I was in danger," and Prather gave Jack a knowing glance of satisfaction.

I had heard of the possibilities here from my friend Leddy, who was also at Goldfield.

"So, if you will take my advice, brother, the best thing for you to do is to ride back before we reach the water-hole, unless you prefer Leddy's company.

They were coming to the edge of a depression of an old watercourse that wound around past the cotton-woods to the ridge itself and included the basin where Leddy and his followers had tethered their horses.

"IIwas it Leddy that fired on us?" "Yes," said Jack over his shoulder, as he and Firio started up the bank of the arroyo facing the water-hole.

"You, Nogales, take my handkerchief and go and explain to Leddy!" Nogales seemed agreeable to the suggestion.

Then Nogales started back with his head thrown up jubilantly, but stopped when he was within calling distance and sang out, truculently: "Leddy get you both!

Firio nodded his understanding of Leddy's plan to take them in flank under cover of the arroyo.

"Leddy know he can't fight.

From Nogales, Leddy must have heard of the loss of two horses.

He could see that Jack, in entire detachment from his problem of fighting Leddy, was thinking soberly in the silence of the desert, unconscious in his absorption of the presence of any other human being.

"Leddy drinks, eats, waits!" whispered Firio.

Why on his horse?" "Leddy turned on me, too!

Jack had made his first visit to the Doge's garden since he had left it to meet Prather and Leddy rather brief when he found that Mary was not at home.

"You are a leddy now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a leddy's room.

"You are a leddy now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a leddy's room.

"Who but a feckless McDonald wud drink his leddy in poonch?