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De Spain started for the stairs. "Henry," called Lefever, as his companion trotted hastily down, "if you catch up to her, kindly apologize for a fat man." But de Spain was balked of an opportunity to follow Nan. In the street he ran into Scott. "Did you get the story?" demanded de Spain. "Part of it." "Was it Sassoon?" Scott shook his head. "I wish it was." "What do you mean?" "Deaf Sandusky."
"Yesterday morning's fight?" asked de Spain reluctantly. "Yes, sir." "How did he happen to catch us on El Capitan?" "He saw a fire on Music Mountain and watched the lower end of the Gap all night. Sassoon was a wide-awake man." "Well, I'm sorry, Pardaloe," continued de Spain after a moment. "Nobody could call it my fault.
"I have the statement of three other passengers; they confirm Elpaso. According to them, Sassoon " de Spain looked straight at the accused, "was drunk and abusive, and kept trying to put some of the other passengers off. Finally he put his feet in the lap of Pumperwasser, our tank and windmill man, and Pumperwasser hit him."
Her tone and the expression of her face boded no friendliness for either of the two she had intercepted. De Spain had recovered his wits. "You're right," he interposed without an instant's hesitation. "It isn't true. But that's not his fault; he is under arrest, and is telling you what I told him to tell you. I came in here this morning to take Sassoon to Sleepy Cat.
A better tracker than either of his companions, Scott after a minute confirmed their belief that Sassoon must have escaped by the window. He then took the two men out to where some one, within a few minutes, had mounted a horse and galloped off. "But where has he gone?" demanded Lefever, pointing with his hand. "There is the road both ways for three miles."
A great deal of inquiry, much riding, and a lot of talk on Druel's part accomplished nothing. Lefever spoiled with impatience to get after Sassoon. "The only way we'll ever get one of that gang is to go for him ourselves," said he. The sheriff's campaign did collapse. Sassoon could not be found although rumor was notorious that he continued to haunt Calabasas. Lefever's irritation grew.
"McAlpin has a wife and children to support," suggested de Spain. "Don't think for a moment he does it," returned Lefever vehemently. "I support his wife and children, myself." "You shouldn't play cards, John." "It was by playing cards that I located Sassoon, just the same. And say, that man blew into Calabasas one day here lately with a twenty-dollar bill; it's a fact.
If there were soft-nose bullets in her rifle it's because she uses them on game bobcats and mountain-lions. I never thought of it till this minute. That is it." "What I came up to tell you has to do with Dave Sassoon. From what happened to-day in the Gap I thought you ought to know it now. Gale and Duke quarrelled yesterday over the way things turned out; they were pretty bitter.
In spite of the caution with which de Spain had covered his movements, and the flood and darkness of the night, Sassoon by a mere chance had got wind through one of his men of de Spain's appearance at Duke Morgan's, and had begun to plan, before Nan and de Spain had got out of the house, how to trap him.
Groups of beauties like the Moncrieffes, Grahams, Conynghams, de Moleynses, Lady Mary Mills, Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. Arthur Sassoon, Lady Dalhousie, Lady March, Lady Londonderry and Lady de Grey were to be seen in the salons of the 'eighties.
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