niment, some quieting medicine to use if the patient could not s

nd Aunt Alvirah did not feel like eating; and, considering his fever, it

endured during his rough ride in the automobile must have be

a Sheming fainting-or yet a

who sat beside him, for he seemed restless. "I don't rem

of here," replied Jerry,

ana? That is where

hrough the car windo

Miss H

's quite some miles. I had been walking two da

Ruth, diffident about showing her interes

to support my

ny folks at al

e youth. "I'm not so much old

r," laughed Ruth, to

of my life-and I guess livin' in the wo

e lived in

y well. Pete Tilton is his name. He's been a guide and hunter all his

errupted Ruth, "What

It was something about his money and papers that he lost. He kep' 'em i

and? Wha

d, but Rufe Blent cheated him out of it. That's what made him so savage with

, and sent him to the county asylum. Then-well, there wasn't no manner o' use my stay

e diffident about asking for further particulars. Be

om for?" demanded the old miller, with his usual growl,

he isn't j

ye call it, Niece Ruth?

h the window and almost the next moment the car slid the rest of the way to the bottom, and lots o

y knows anything about him. Why didn't Davison send him to the hospital? The doc's

nding over the stove. "Don't ye make yourself out wuss n

u more wor

I want ye sh'd take me back to the poor farm where ye got me-an' where I'd been these last

of charity I've showed you, Alviry Boggs. I reckon

im miller with shining eyes. Ruth thought her face really beautif

done in this world'-on the sly! An' you'll let this pore boy rest an' git well here before he has to

, and stumped away to the mil

ed to her work again. "But out o' sight he's re'lly gettin' tender-hearted, R

o the miller and his family: "Look out for your stables and pigpens. There's

y, are they?" demanded Uncle Jabez, wi

ion and lioness. Them last two they say is as tame as kittens. But excuse me! I'd ruther trust the kittens," said the neighbor. Then he dug his

n the first floor of the cottage. But the "blinds" had not been closed on the east side of the house since they were painted the previo

windows, one had a broken hinge that the painters had

her could jump right into that room where Jerry is. But if we keep a brigh

the shattered circus car. Probably, Ruth told herself before the evening wa

rreled shotgun, cleaned and oiled it, and sl

lose my pigs if I c

p after supper without recourse to the medicine Dr. Davison had left. As usual, Uncl

much between June and September! Aunt Alvirah was

voice spoke out of the g

bring th

ured Uncle Jab

delirious," decla

ran lightly to the room

ering at the flushed face th

!" mutter

ng!" declared Ruth

r see that black panther in her native wilds, o' course; but I've tracked o

le squealed suddenly-a scream

in his stocking feet, with t

" he demand

egs out of bed, despite the pain it cau

n, groaning, "Oh, my b

ised the sash where t

reached out a grasping hand. "Gimme that gun, sir

sting the gun into the young fellow's han

k back. If she leap

oom they all saw the crouching creature on the lawn outside. It was

ollowed by the other, flashed into the night. There w

voice. "I was some mistaken in you. Ah! it hurt ye, eh?" and he proceeded to lift

il daybreak. Then they learned that the pair of