Bluff Top Hotel sent a large delegation of people seeking the variety of life.
There were automobiles, traps, victorias, hay-racks, and "sundowns" standing all along the street in the vicinity of Hapgood's Grove.

It was to be, in the expansive language of the press agent, "a cultured audience made up of the elite of the community." Late in the afternoon, a paralysing thought struck in upon the marshal's brain.

It occurred to him that this band of robbers might also be engaged to carry off Rosalie Gray.

After all, it might be the great dominant reason for their descent upon the community.

Covered with a perspiration that was not caused by heat, he accosted Wicker Bonner, the minute that gentleman arrived in town.