And if there's anything under heaven that I can do, to--to help--you'll let me do it, won't you ?" Her eyes held him briefly, unabashed at what they might tell.

Then she stepped back, and contradicted them with a little laugh.
"I will get fired sure for staying over my time," she said.

"I'll wire for the coroner soon as I get to the office.

This will never come to a trial, Grant.

He was like a crazy man, and we all saw him shoot first." She waited until he had passed through and was a third of the way to the stable where Peaceful Hart and his boys were gathered, and then she followed him briskly, as if her mind was taken up with her own affairs.
"It's a shame you fellows got cheated out of a scrap," she taunted Jack, who held her horse for her while she settled herself in the saddle.