That is, I tried--it was rather a good one when I got hold of it." The girl laughed, and the laugh set them on good terms with each other.

Then she said: "That load is far too heavy for you to climb over these boulders with when you have an injured foot.

You can give me the valise, at least." "No," said Weston, resolutely, "this is a good deal easier than shoveling gravel, as well as pleasanter; and the foot really doesn't trouble me very much.

Besides, if I hadn't cut it, Cassidy wouldn't have sent me here." He was, however, mistaken in supposing that the construction foreman had been influenced only by a desire to get rid of a man who was to some extent incapacitated.

As a matter of fact, Miss Stirling, who had been rather pleased with the part he had played two days ago, had, when her father insisted on her taking a white man as well as the Indians, given Cassidy instructions that he should be sent.