He paused and then spat out venomously: "Oh, it'll get Swen Brodie and it'll get you, too, Mark King.

The sun was rising when, he made his way to the top of the ridge and came to stand where he had seen Parker and Swen Brodie side by side.

He clambered on until he came to the very crest over which Swen Brodie had disappeared.

On that lower, deformed, undershot jaw of Swen Brodie were those monstrous teeth which were his pride, a misshapen double row which he kept clean while his body went unwashed, and between which the man could bend a nail.

Swen Brodie was the biggest man who had ever come to the mountains, men said, unless that honour went to one of the Seven who more than a half-century ago had perished with Gus Ingle.

The elder Brodie had come from Iceland, had lived with a squaw, had sired the first "Swen" Brodie.

If he ever fought Swen Brodie, just man to man, with only the weapons nature gave them, what would the end be?

No, nor if Swen Brodie cain't git the best of me, no other man can," he added meaningly, glaring at King.

She wondered what had happened at Honeycutt's; if King had had any words with Swen Brodie.

"Do you know," he said presently, "that they are probably Gratton and Swen Brodie and their outfit?"

Swen Brodie.

Swen Brodie puffed regularly at his pipe and watched and listened intently.

To begin with, there was Swen Brodie and there was Gratton.

It was big Swen Brodie, his face horrible.

No; it was not King; it was Swen Brodie!

It was clear that, with the possible exception of Swen Brodie, not a man of them was entirely sober.

Chapter XXIX Swen Brodie, whose will had at all times directed, was now absolute dictator.

That's big Swen Brodie, the best man in these mountains!

" The laughter and challenge went out of Swen Brodie's bloodshot eyes; a new red surged all of a sudden into them.

Another man called out something; the slow, heavy feet of Swen Brodie were following, following.

King's shout then was to ring through Gloria's memory for days to come; he bore down on Swen Brodie, caught him about the great body, lifted him clear of the floor and hurled him downward.

She did not know if any vital organ lay in that narrow span or if any major artery had been severed or if the rifle-ball had merely glanced along the ribs and been deflected by them; she only knew that he had lost much blood, that it must have gushed freely while he strove with Swen Brodie, and that now it must be stopped utterly.

Governor Printz returned to Sweden, and in his place the warlike magistrate John Risingh came to the Delaware with some soldiers under the bold Swen Schute, and appeared before Fort Cassimer demanding its surrender.

SWEN, EARL GREGG.

SWEN, EARL GREGG.