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Rh "You had no right to abuse my partner," said Andy, sure that Matt was in the right of the altercation. "Now you get right out of here, and don't show your face again."

And Andy shoved the man toward the door, which he had left partly open.

The tipsy man began to remonstrate, and wanted to fight both of them. He grew quite abusive, and threatened to wreck all the things in the establishment. Before he could carry out his threat, however, Andy and Matt landed him out on his back on the sidewalk and beckoned to a passing policeman.

"What! so it's you again!" cried the officer, on seeing the intoxicated individual. "I thought you had warning enough at the hotel. What has he been doing?" he asked of Matt.

"He got mad because I wouldn't let him handle the pistols in the place."

"The pistols?"

"Yes, sir. He insisted upon seeing the best pistol we had, and I wouldn't accommodate him. I thought it might be dangerous. Of course he would want cartridges, and then he might go off and shoot somebody."

"That was his intention. He got into a row in the hotel on the next block, and the clerk says he