"Is nothing to be done about it?
We heard the shot,--every one heard it.

And no one has the courage to say a word about it! What a lot of cowards we are! I don't see why he refuses to let me take the matter up with the Captain.

Captain Trigger ought to know the truth." Ruth was silent for a moment or two.

"It's hard for me to believe, Aunt Julia, that he would attack a defenceless man with a revolver.

It--it doesn't seem like him." "But you have Abel Landover's word for it, Ruth.