CHAPTER XVI.
AN UNPLEASANT VISIT.
IT will be recalled that during these incidents Monteith Sterry and Fred Whitney were sitting at the front of the long, low building, which was the home of the latter, discussing the incidents of the last day or two, as well as the matter of Whitney removing, with his family, to the East, in order to prevent any addition to the affliction they had just suffered.
Besides this, Whitney had turned on his young friend, and impressed upon him that he, too, was incurring unjustifiable risk by remaining in Wyoming during the inflamed state of public feeling.

There was much less excuse in the case of Sterry than of his host.

He ought to be at home prosecuting the study of his profession, as his parents wished him to do.

His health was fully restored, and it cannot be denied that he was wasting his precious days.

He was fond of his father, mother, brothers and sisters, and it would grieve them beyond expression if he should uselessly sacrifice himself.
"Yes," he replied, "I cannot deny the truth of what you say, Fred.