I only know that it will be noble and upright--like yourself.
"I remain, yours most sincerely" "ELIZABETH MERTON." Anderson pressed the letter to his lips.

Its tender philosophising found no echo in his own mind.

But it soothed, because it came from her.
He lay dressed and wakeful on his bed through the night, and at nine next morning the inquest opened, in the coffee-room of the hotel.
The body of the young constable was first identified.

As to the hand which had fired the shot that killed him, there was no certain evidence; one of the police had seen the lame man with the white hair level his revolver again after the first miss; but there was much shooting going on, and no one could be sure from what quarter the fatal bullet had come.
The court then proceeded to the identification of the dead robber.

The coroner, a rancher who bred the best horses in the district, called first upon two strangers in plain clothes, who had arrived by the first train from the South that morning.