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Updated: June 20, 2025
Back at the little level where the men were grouped there was a tension that seemed to charge the atmosphere with tragedy. Deveny's men sat silent in their saddles, watching their leader and Harlan with sullen, savage eyes. The T Down men, facing them, were equally sullen.
Who's with me?" "You're shoutin'!" declared Colver. "It's time for a new deal," muttered another. "You're doin' the yappin'," grimly announced a big man who was close to Rogers; "we're followin' your lead." "I'm jumpin' for the Star then!" declared Rogers; "to put Harlan wise to where Deveny's headed for. We're leavin' the herd here until we find out what's goin' on.
She wished now that she had not yielded to the impulse which had brought her to Lamo; but her lips grew firm and her eyes defiant as she at last got up and walked to one of the front windows. Now, more vividly than ever, could she understand the significance of Deveny's glances at her in the past; the light in his eyes had been an expression of premeditated evil, awaiting an opportunity.
But after the horsemen passed the point that led to the Star trail, a new anxiety seized Rogers and a passion that sent the blood to his face swept over him. His eyes were glowing with an excitement that he could not repress when he turned to Colver. "Somethin's up!" he snapped. "Deveny's been sullen as hell for a good many days ever since Harlan came to the Star.
Before he could get the men and return to where he now stood Deveny would have taken the girl to that mysterious and unknown rendezvous in the hills in which his band had always concealed themselves, and Barbara would be lost. Linton's lips straightened. He was to blame. He knew the danger that would attend the action of following Deveny's men up the valley.
Haydon was the one man in the section who seemed to have no fear of Deveny and his men many times he had told her that most of the stories told of Deveny's crimes were untrue that he had not committed all those that were attributed to him. Not that Haydon condoned those offenses upon which Deveny stood convicted by circumstantial evidence. Nor had Haydon ever sought to defend Deveny.
She could not stay in this room and suffer the hideous uncertainty; she could not take Rogers' word that her father had been killed. There must be some mistake. Perhaps Rogers knew she was at the window, listening, and he had said that just to spite her. For she had discouraged Rogers' advances as she had discouraged Deveny's. Breathing fast, she unlocked the door and went out into the hall.
And now Deveny discovered that Harlan was watching the three of them together a trick which is accomplished by fixing the gaze upon some object straight in front of one; in this case it was Deveny's collar and then including other objects on each side of the center object. Steady nerves and an inflexible will are required to keep the gaze unwavering, and a complete absence of self-consciousness.
The long shudder that shook the girl betrayed something of the terrible emotion under which she was laboring; and when she finally opened her eyes to gaze again into Deveny's, they were filled with a haunting hopelessness a complete surrender to the sinister circumstances which seemed to have surrounded her from the beginning.
"In the first place, Deveny's gang ain't never been heard of as pullin' off anything anywheres else but in Sunset Valley. As for that, there's plenty of room in the valley for them without gettin' out of it. But it seems they'd get out once in a while. They don't they stay right in the valley, or close around it.
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