The Flaming Jewel

appeared-a half-shy, half-bold, willowy

n the back porch for Eve Strayer to dry

't come here, but I can't keep her away and her

m in a chicken su

y at young Smith

ning light. Some were met by gallants,

om? Do they live in trees

ters in the woods," she

ls come from Ghost

tresses a

usic is

fiddle. I play the mel

a fight?" he asked, with a si

suppose I do?

onscious always of his s

enough to quit, he'll take you out of t

particular for a young man who stuck up a tou

n account," returned Smith, l

Hal Smith. And you'd better keep out of the d

tate Trooper m

now them." She opened a sliding wooden shutter and looked in

ark man who looks like a Kanuk. And those two men shaking

e Inn. One of them was Sard. Quintan

hen and out onto the rear porch where Smith was washin

to Smith: "Hal-you help Eve wait on the table. And if anybody acts up rough you slam

strangers, da

Troopers. They talk like they was foreign. One of 'em's

e any names?"

guy with a face like a Canada priest-José Sanchez-or something on that style. And then the yellow skinned young man is Nicole S

s doing in the North Wood

ks," added Clinch contemptuously. "I don't know what they be-hootch runners maybe-or boo

drinking. He always dran

en now, rolling up his shirt slee