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The sheriff's posse three men whom he had deputized in Lazette and himself had ridden hard over the twenty miles of rough trail from Lazette, for Duncan had assured Allen that he would have to get into action before Dakota could discover that there had been a witness to his deed, and therefore when they arrived at the edge of the clearing near Dakota's cabin at midnight, they were glad of an opportunity to dismount and stretch themselves.
"Well," he said, with a short laugh, "I've told you, and it's up to you. They were talking about you, and if Dakota's your friend, as you're claiming him to be, he'd have told you what they was talking about if it wasn't what I say it was him knowing how Langford feels toward you. And they didn't only talk. Langford wrote something on a paper and gave it to Dakota.
As she rode she could not help contrasting Dakota's character to those of her father and Duncan. She eliminated Duncan immediately, as being not strong enough to compare either favorably or unfavorably with either of the other two. And, much against her will, she was compelled to admit that with all his shortcomings Dakota made a better figure than her father.
As the animal had on a bridle and a saddle he surmised that Dakota's visit would not be of long duration, and having no desire to visit Doubler in the presence of his rival, he shunted his own horse off the edge of a sand dune and down into the bed of a dry arroyo. Urging the animal along this, he presently reached a sand flat on whose edge arose a grove of fir-balsam and cottonwood.
Moulin's voice was pregnant with awed admiration. "I reckon there ain't no one who knows Dakota's goin' to trifle with him he's discouraged that long ago. Square, too, square as they make 'em." "The Lord knows the country needs square men," observed Blacky. He caught a sign from a man seated at a table and went over to him with a bottle and a glass.
Sheila really had no expectation of prevailing upon Duncan to return Dakota's horse, and had she anticipated that the manager would accept her challenge she would not have given it, for after thinking over the incident of her rescue she had come to the conclusion that she had not treated Dakota fairly, and by personally taking his horse to him she would have an opportunity to proffer her tardy thanks for his service.
There was a movement; a square of light appeared in the wall of darkness; there came a step on the threshold. Watching, Sheila saw, framed in the open doorway, the dim outlines of a figure a man. "Stand right there," came Dakota's voice from somewhere in the impenetrable darkness of the interior, and Sheila wondered at the hospitality that greeted a stranger with total darkness and a revolver.
Both Duncan and Langford watched her until she had vanished, and then Langford turned to Duncan. "What on earth have you done to her?" he questioned. But Duncan was savagely pulling the saddle from Dakota's pony and did not answer.
She sees a warrior, scarce older than the captive, flourishing a tomahawk in the Dakota's face. A burning rage darts forth from her eyes and brands him for a victim of revenge. Her heart mutters within her breast, "Come, I wish to meet you, vile foe, who captured my lover and tortures him now with a living death."
North Dakota's constitution provided that the legislature might in the future enfranchise women. History of Woman Suffrage, IV, p. 556. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 690. Ibid., p. 688. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 731. Ms., Diary, Feb. 28, April 18, 1893. Published first in the Woman's Tribune, then as a book in 1898 under the title, Eighty Years and More. Harper, Anthony, II, p. 712.
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