14/17 "Bennett came back to find his wife murdered and the kid gone." "Oh!" said the girl, in a shocked voice. The town rose up in a body, and we--you see, I happened to be there--we followed the man for weeks. We trailed him and the kid clear over into the Nevada desert where we lost them." "Poor man!" "Poor man ?" The story-teller raised his eyes and laughed sinisterly. "I don't see where that comes in." "And you never caught him ?" "No. Not yet." "He died of thirst in the desert, maybe, he and the little one." "That's what we thought at the time, but I don't believe it now." "How so ?" "Well, I've crossed his trail since then.No.Gaylord is alive to-day, and so is the girl. |