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ARION caught her closely to her heart. “I knew you would go if I got you angry, dear. But you are so slow to anger. Mr. McCloud is just the same way. Mr. Smith says when he does get angry he can do anything. He is very like you in so many ways.”

Dicksie was wiping her eyes. “Is he, Marion? Well, what shall I wear?”

“Just your riding-clothes, dear, and a smile. He won’t know what you have on. It is you he will want to see. But I’ve been thinking of something else. What will your Cousin Lance say? Suppose he should object?”

“Object! I should like to see him object after losing the fight himself.” Marion laughed. “Well, do you think you can find the way down there for us?”

“I can find any way anywhere within a hundred miles of here.”

On the 20th of June McCloud did have something of an army of men in the Crawling Stone Val- 179