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Updated: May 3, 2025
Rathburn remembered the name instantly as being the same which had been spoken by Laura Mallory the night before. He remembered, too, the man who had been there and who had driven away to town in the little car. He surmised that this man had been Doane; and it had been he who had brought the information of Rathburn's arrival and the posse's pursuit to the girl.
We want to be good an' away out of that posse's path an' quick." "You might as well take what you're after an' then each of us can look out for himself," was the hot retort. Rathburn looked at the man quizzically. "You've got more spunk than I thought," he mused. He stared at the other man closely. The bandit could not have been more than twenty-five or twenty-six. He was tall, well-built, blond.
By a bold and daring coup, it said, the entire herd of criminals, all half starved and weakened by privations, had been rounded up and transported back to prison. Unfortunately, the report was slightly inaccurate. Matt Barger, the leader in the prison delivery, and the most desperate man in the lot, had escaped the posse's vigilance.
The posse was, I am convinced, over-nervous and, unfortunately, over-rigorous. This can be explained in part by the state-wide apprehension over the I.W.W.; in part by the normal California country posse's attitude toward a labor trouble.
Maddened by the little they were able to accomplish, and with the torture-lust that is as old as humanity itself roused to fury by frustration, the posse turned from that which had been Jake, to old Neptune, standing motionless by his doorway. Neptune had not moved or spoken since Peter had answered the posse's questions. He had not even appeared to hear the vile abuse heaped upon him.
Terriberry down like a spell of sickness. She looked jaded from the present conversation and her thoughts ran together bewilderingly. "I know to-night how an outlaw feels when the posse's at his heels and he rides with murder in his heart," the girl went on with hardness in her young voice. "I know to-night why he makes them pay dear for his life when he takes his last stand behind a rock."
Of this important factor in the welcome story of the posse's work Goldite was ignorant, and doomed to be in ignorance a week. The news to Beth was a source of great relief. But her troubles in other directions were fated to increase. That evening three men called formally formally, that is to say, in so far as dressing in their best was concerned and putting on their "company manners."
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