Those men were carrying out a principle of the unscrupulous system you defended in our talk last night.

If there had been no system those men would not have attempted to cut my fence, I would not have captured them, and they would not have attempted to kill me.

Do you see what I meant last night when I said the system was evil ?" She held his gaze unflinchingly.

"Mr.Lawler," she said; "those men had no orders to kill you--they attempted that because you captured them, I suppose.

And I did not, last night, attempt to defend Gary Warden's action in sending them here.