Well, ez he couldn't find the note that Hale had guv him, and like ez not the road agents had gone through him and got it, ez soon ez the weather let up I made a break over yer to tell ye." "You say Mr.Lee came to your house," repeated Mrs.Hale, "and is there now ?" "Not much," said the man grimly; "and I never said LEE was thar.

I mean that Bilson waz shot by Lee and kem--" "Certainly, Josephine!" said Kate, suddenly stepping between her sister and Thompson, and turning upon her a white face and eyes of silencing significance; "certainly--don't you remember ?--that's the story we got from the Chinaman, you know, only muddled.

Go on sir," she continued, turning to Thompson calmly; "you say that the man who brought the note from my brother was shot by Lee ?" "And another fellow they call Falkner.

Yes, that's about the size of it." "Thank you; it's nearly the same story that we heard.

But you have had a long ride, Mr.Thompson; let me offer you a glass of whiskey in the dining-room.