We surrounded it, and were just about to fire it when Kilday came tearing up on horseback." "Yes ?" cried Ruth.
"Well," he went on, "he hadn't started with us, and he had been riding like mad all night to overtake the crowd.

His horse dropped under him before he could dismount.

Kilday jumped out in the crowd and began to talk like a crazy man.

He said we mustn't harm Ricks Wilson; that Ricks hadn't shot the judge, for he was sure he had seen him out the Junction road about half-past five.

We all saw it was a put-up job; he was Ricks Wilson's old pal, you know." "But Sandy Kilday wouldn't lie!" cried Ruth.
"Well, that's what he did, and worse.