The Secret of Lonesome Cove

xes an assemblage poised, with eyes staring in one direction, thus the half-breed's words had cast a spell of i

riff. "You, Jim, set down!" he shouted. "If th

e half-breed. "Blood is

d at his right hand. There w

his elbow. "Mistakes like tha

he killin'?" cried Gansett

o that?" retorted the sheriff

eyelids flashed up, and instantl

medical officer. "Burial of the unknown,

k to Kent. "I don't know that I'm exactly frightened

run-which would probably be the end of us. Curious things about those ha

lness. The crowd, darkling and undecided, pressed around them. As they went through the doorway, they were j

n quick," advised Schl

clear and cheerful voice. "W

," said some informant back of him

ar, followed by Sedgwick. As they took their seats and sta

lar moment worse than you do the peac

ands to do. The more casually we get out of town, the less likely we are to be foll

eing "awful dang choosy about what he gets," and came out into a considerable part of the po

y tip," he sai

d Kent. "There will

just

corner of the scientist's long jaw. "

ecome a mob, to disperse, slowly and hesitantly, having lacked the incentive of suggested flight on the part of

the sherif

er line is open to him. He's in a tight place.

, th

sett

asking Gansett Jim where he

Kent quizzicall

the unknown wom

that there w

eath of the unkn

at there was any

do know, what do you t

do you

killed her and is trying

um

the time of the killing, he can't suppose me guil

care. His concern is qui

for me," confes

s why I am going ba

ht you were

speak to a woman under seventy. I'm a timid soul, Sedgwick; but I don't think I shall be in an