"It isn't being tired, Mary; I'm not particularly tired. But I must be off again in about an hour."
"Out again to-night?"
"Yes, indeed."
"On horseback?"
"How else? Old Bates and Mickey are in their saddles still. I don't want to have my fences burned as soon as they're put up. It's a ticklish thing to think that a spark of fire any where about the place might ruin me, and to know at