If I said I could ride a moke, nobody would see it, and if it were seen it wouldn't make any impression; but to say I killed two mountain-lions with a jack-knife on the edge of a precipice, with the sun standing still to look at it, is as good as the original lie and better; and I score.

My reputation increases." Nathan Rockwell's equilibrium was restored.

"You're certainly a wonder," he declared.

"That's why you've succeeded." "Have I succeeded ?" "Thirty-three-and what you are!" "What am I ?" "Pretty well master here." "Rockwell, that'd do me a lot of harm if it was published.

Don't say it again.