I was goin' to ask him a lot of questions, too." "Can't you remember where and under what circumstances you saw him before ?" cried Bonner, very much excited.
"I'm goin' to try to think it up to-night.

He was a rich-lookin' feller an' he had a heavy black band aroun' one of his coat sleeves.

Wick, I bet he's the man we want.

I've made up my mind 'at he's her father!" Bonner impatiently wormed all the information possible out of the marshal, especially as to the stranger's looks, voice, the direction taken when they parted company and then dismally concluded that an excellent opportunity had been hopelessly lost.

Anderson said, in cross-examination, that the stranger had told him he "was leavin' at once fer New York and then going to Europe." His mother had died recently.
"I'll try to head him off at Boggs City," said Bonner; and half an hour later he was off at full speed in the big machine for the county seat, a roundabout way to Bonner Place.