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After which the guard marshaled Piegan, MacRae, and me, along with Hicks and Bevans, into the room where MacRae and Lessard had clashed that memorable day. Then they carried in the two bodies and laid them on the floor, and last of all the pack that held Hank Rowan's gold and the government currency.
Literally, we set about reviving Hicks, with a view to learning from him what had become of Lyn Rowan. He and Bevans undoubtedly knew, and as Bevans persisted in his defiant sullenness, refusing to open his mouth for other purpose than to curse us vigorously, we turned to Hicks.
If we can get hold of Hicks or Bevans, any one of the four, in fact, I think we can make him tell us all we need to know. It's the only chance for you and Lyn to get your money back, and for me to square myself." "I shouldn't think," I put in resentfully, "that you'd want to square yourself, after the dirty way you've been treated.
A pause of some minutes followed; and then she determined to change the subject. "The music went very well this afternoon, I think," she said. "Miss Colwyn was in very good voice. Do you not like her singing?" "Yes, very much." "The Watertons were asking me about her. And the Bevans. I fancy she will get several engagements. Poor girl, I hope she will."
As MacRae had surmised, our canyon forked below. We turned the point after making sure that Bevans couldn't see us unless he moved. But the uncertain beggar had moved, and moved to some purpose we quickly learned; for when we next laid eyes on him he was out on the extreme point of the little bench, opposite the mouth of the coulée we had ascended, whirling his horse about in cramped circles.
"The Bevans have been here, Margaret." "Have they? When we were out yesterday, I suppose?" "Yes. And the Accringtons, and oh, ah, yes two or three other people." "Who, mamma?" said Margaret, her attention immediately attracted by her mother's hesitation. She turned away from the door and entered the morning-room as she spoke. "Oh, only Lady Ashley, dear," said Lady Caroline smoothly.
Once more he was revealed on top of an elevation, studying the surrounding landscape, and he was still alone. "Where the mischief can Hicks have got to?" Mac growled. "We really ought to smell him out before we do anything." "Look, now," I said. "Don't you suppose Bevans is waiting for him?" Bevans had dismounted and stretched himself on the ground in the shade of his horse.
This was to outwalk Stalker's party of bandits and give timely warning to the Bevans; for, although Flinders's hints had been vague enough, he readily guessed that the threatened danger was the descent of the robbers on their little homestead, and it naturally occurred to his mind that this was probably the same party which had made the previous attack, especially as he had observed several Indians among them.
But he was not napping; on the contrary, he was very much on the alert, for his head turned slowly from side to side, quiescent as he seemed; there would be little movement pass unobserved within range of that pair of eyes. "Maybe he is," MacRae replied. "Anyhow, I think we'd better wait a while ourselves." For nearly an hour Bevans kept his position.
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