! "Well, one fine day the old coach lum j tered up the road and dropped into view a pritty slick looking specimen of the I Eastern 'sport,' and with him one of the \ sweetest little wdmtn tfliat ever stepped out of «(. pi-cture book. She looked so modest I «i:d siiv, so delicate, snch a frail little body j that, fad you been" there, you would in ! stantlv have set to wo»d;ring how on earth she ciime to be travelling with the tough disk-msr who accompanied her. "Kvnits that the pair were running a partnership of the time-honoured sort "ttiboie a pretty face helped out the wily schemes of a clever rascal. The couple gays it to be understood, or rather, the 1 male one of the pair did, since the woman | remained very much in the background, tint they were brother and sister, that his name was Henry King, and hers Dorothy ! King. Th.v rented a little one-storey | dwelling that happened to be vacant at the [ moment, and tfroush Mr Harry King had no visible occupation he became pretty soon one of the leading men of the town. He sr-oned to be a square dealer all round, a slick, oily talker, and a man with aa much give and take as another. He said he came to the town for his health's sake and hinted that money was not always art ob ject to him ; he had enough for his modest nseds. He hod deposited 600dols m the rJheldons' bank shortly after his arrival and intimated that he would supplement that amount later, oh receipt of the nroceeds from the sale of some of his New York pro-. % "1_ some way he wornwd himself into the good graces of the better class of people in the town, and the teas and little sup toers that be gave in his cottage were the fcocial events of the place. B^ty" l presided at those functions, and, indeed, it was to her that their popularity was due. You can hardly imagine the respectability and decorum of those gatherings in a rough growing Western. "Of course the majority of the young men of the place, and, indeed, for that mat ter, many of the eld onefi,. were deeply smitten with the charms of Dorothy King. 