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Again the footsteps of a running man reached them. It was

Siegfried. He plunged into the group like a wild bull, shook the

hair out of his eyes, and planted himself beside Fraser. With one

backward buffet of his great arm he sent Johnson heels over head.

He caught Yorky by the shoulders, strong man though the latter

was, and shook him till his teeth rattled, after which he flung

him reeling a dozen yards to the ground. The Norwegian was

reaching for Dick when Fraser stopped him.

"That's enough of a clean-up right now, Sig. Dick butted in like

you to help me," he explained.

"The durned coyotes!" roared the big Norseman furiously, leaping

at Leroy and tossing him over his head as an enraged bull does.

He turned upon the other three, shaking his tangled mane, but

they were already in flight.

"I'll show them. I'll show them," he kept saying as he came back

to the man he had rescued.