ds in person and by wire. But the Marquis, for the
moment, did not have any funds to give him.

Roosevelt and the Marquis were inevitably thrown together, for they
were men whose tastes in many respects were similar. They were both
fond of hunting, and fond also of books, and the Marquis, who was
rather solitary in his grandeur and possibly a bit lonely, jumped at
the opportunity Roosevelt's presence in Medora offered for
companionship with his own kind. Roosevelt did not like him. He
recognized, no doubt, that if any cleavage should come in the
community to which they both belonged, they would, in all probability,
not be found on the same side.

VII

An oath had come between us--I was paid by Law and Order;
He was outlaw, rustler, killer--so the border whisper ran;
Left his word in Caliente that he'd cross the Rio border--
Call me coward? But I hailed him--"Riding close to daylight, Dan!"

Just a hair and he'd have got me, but my voice, and not the warning,
Caught his hand and held him steady; then he nodded, spoke my name,
Reined his pony round and fanned it in the bright and silent morning,
Back across the sunlit Rio up the trail on which he came.

Henry Herbert KNIBBS

It was already plain that there were in fact two distinct groups along
the valley of the Little Missouri. There are always two groups in any
community (short of heaven); and the fact that in the Bad Lands there
was a law-abiding element, and another element whose main interest in
law was in the contemplation of its fragments, would not be worth
remarking if it had not happened that the Marquis had allowed himself
to be maneuvered into a position in which he appeared, and in which in
fact he was, the protector of the disciples of violence. This was due
partly to Maunders's astute manipulations, but largely also to the
obsession by which apparently he was seized that he was the lord of
the manor in the style of the _ancien regime_, not to be bothered in
his beneficent despotism with the restrictions that kept the common
man in his place. As a foreigner he naturally cared little for the
political development of the region; as long as his own possessions,
therefore, were not tampered with, he was not greatly disturbed by
any depredations which his neighbors might suffer. He employed hands
without number; he seemed to believe any "fool lie" a man felt
inclined to tell him; he distribute