He, too, showed signs of a hard night.
"May I come in a moment to the fire ?" he asked.
She led the way to the dining-room and ordered coffee.
"Now tell me," she demanded breathlessly.
"It's a mixed-up business," said Gray, holding his numb hands to the blaze.

"We left here early in the night and worked on a wrong trail till midnight.

Then a train-man out at the Junction gave us a clue, and we got a couple of bloodhounds and traced Wilson as far as Ellersberg." "Go on!" said Ruth, shuddering.
"You see, a rumor got out that the judge had died.

We didn't say anything before the sheriff, but it was understood that Ricks wouldn't be brought back to town alive.

We located him in an old barn.