6/15 "He ought to be back with the posse by ten at the latest. I told him we would meet them at nine where this trail comes into the big road." "And how far do you say it is to Jim Lane's place, by the road and the Old Trail ?" asked the first voice. "POSSE," that could mean only one thing,--officers of the law. But her father's name and her home--in an instant Jim's strange companionship with Wash Gibbs, their long mysterious rides together, her father's agitation that morning, when he said good- by, with a thousand other things rushed through her mind. What terrible thing was this that she had happened upon in the night? |