"Just what was that about, Lone?
You're the one who found her and took her in to the ranch, I believe.

She somehow mixed her delusion up with Fred Thurman, didn't she ?" Lone made a swift decision.

He was afraid to appear to hesitate, so he laughed his quiet little chuckle while he scrambled mentally for a plausible lie.
"I don't know as she done that, quite," he drawled humorously.

"She was out of her head, all right, and talking wild, but I laid it to her being sick and scared.

She said a man was shot, and that she saw it happen.
And right on top of that she said she didn't think they ought to stage a murder and a thunderstorm in the same scene, and thought they ought to save the thunder and lightning for the murderer to make his getaway by.
She used to work for the moving pictures, and she was going on about some wild-west picture she thought she was acting a part in.
"Afterwards I told her what she'd been saying, and she seemed to kinda remember it, like a bad dream she'd had.