He hasn't seen him for two weeks." Then, looking almost tearfully at Clarence's face, she said, "No more have we." "But," said Clarence impatiently, "something must have happened.

Where is his house ?" "Taken away by them jumpers," interrupted the old farmer; "a lot of roughs that pulled it down and carted it off in a jiffy before our very eyes without answerin' a civil question to me or her.

But he wasn't there, nor before, nor since." "No," added the old woman, with flashing eyes, "or he'd let 'em have what ther' was in his six-shooters." "No, he wouldn't, mother," said the girl impatiently, "he'd CHANGED, and was agin all them ideas of force and riotin'.

He was for peace and law all the time.

Why, the day before we missed him he was tellin' me California never would be decent until people obeyed the laws and the titles were settled.