I'll have a story that will make folks sit up and take notice all right." "I hope, though, Jim," said Thad, "you won't overdo the thing, because you see we haven't a peg to hang it on, since we don't know what sort of a crime the man might have done away down there in Texas to make Marshal Hastings come so far after him.

You'll draw it a bit mild, won't you, Jim?
Just strong enough to strike terror to the heart of that rascal, Brother Lu ?" "That's all right, Thad, you leave it to me," asserted Jim, with a confidence born of experience, as well as reliance on his powers of description and invention.

"Yes, I can do the thing to the king's taste.

Why, in such a case it's my habit to make myself actually believe in my work.

Right now I can actually see the ferocious and not-to-be-denied Marshal Hastings.