Can you both eat, and listen ?" Keith nodded, his eyes full of interest, searching her face.
"Whoever I may be, Mr.Keith, and really that seems only of small importance, I came to Fort Larned seeking some trace of my only brother, whom we last heard from there, where he had fallen into evil companionship.

On the stage trip I was fortunate enough to form an acquaintance with a man who told me he knew where I could meet Fred, but that the boy was hiding because of some trouble he had lately gotten into, and that I should have to proceed very carefully so as not to lead the officers to discover his whereabouts.

This gentleman was engaged in some business at Carson City, but he employed a man to bring me to this place, and promised to get Fred, and meet me here the following day.
There must have been some failure in the plans, for I have been here entirely alone now for three days.

It has been very lonesome, and--and I've been a little frightened.

Perhaps I ought not to have come, and I am not certain what kind of a place this is.