Then after a moment she added, with a faint laugh, "You see we haven't seen each other for so long--it's all so sudden--so unexpected." "But you kem here, just now, calkilatin' to find me ?" said Collinson gravely.
"Yes, yes," she said quickly, still grasping both his hands, but with her head slightly turned in the direction of the mill.
"But who told ye where to find the mill ?" he said, with gentle patience.
"A friend," she said hurriedly.

"Perhaps," she added, with a singular smile, "a friend of the friend who told you." "I see," said Collinson, with a relieved face and a broadening smile, "it's a sort of fairy story.

I'll bet, now, it was that old Barker woman that Chivers knows." Her teeth gleamed rigidly together in the moonlight, like a death's-head.

"Yes," she said dryly, "it was that old Barker woman.
Say, Seth," she continued, moistening her lips slowly, "you're guarding this place alone ?" "Thar's another feller up the trail,--a sentry,--but don't you be afeard, he can't hear us, Sade." "On this side of the mill ?" "Yes! Why, Lord love ye, Sadie! t'other side o' the mill it drops down straight to the valley; nobody comes yer that way but poor low-down emigrants.

And it's miles round to come by the valley from the summit." "You didn't hear your friend Chivers say that the sheriff was out with his posse to-night hunting them ?" "No.