supplied. The log hut was a store as well as a place of

defence, and as they offered to pay for it there was no

refusing their request--at least so the major thought.

The ammunition was therefore given to them, and in

half-an-hour they were away again at full gallop over

the plains on their mission of vengeance. "Vengeance

is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." But these men

knew not what God said, because they never read his

Word and did not own his sway.

Young Varley's enthusiasm was considerably damped