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Hope Goes to Sheridan.
The discovery of the locket which had fallen from about Keith's neck made it impossible for Hope to remain quietly for very long in the hotel at Fort Larned.

The more carefully she thought over the story of that murder at the Cimmaron Crossing, and Keith's tale of how he had discovered and buried the mutilated bodies, the more assured she became that that was where this locket came from, and that the slain freighter must have been her own father.

She never once questioned the truth of Keith's report; there was that about the man which would not permit of her doubting him.

He had simply failed to mention what he removed from the bodies, supposing this would be of no special interest.
Mrs.Murphy, hoping thus to quiet the apprehensions of her charge, set herself diligently at work to discover the facts.