The bodies were brought in a few hours ago." His companion pointed to a shed beyond the station.

They walked thither, the Superintendent describing in detail the attack on the train and the measures taken for the capture of the marauders, Anderson listening in silence.

The affair had taken place early that morning, but the telegraph wires had been cut in several places on both sides of the damaged line, so that no precise news of what had happened had reached either Vancouver on the west, or Golden on the east, till the afternoon.
The whole countryside was now in movement, and a vigorous man-hunt was proceeding on both sides of the line.
"There is no doubt the whole thing was planned by a couple of men from Montana, one of whom was certainly concerned in the hold-up there a few months ago and got clean away.

But there were six or seven of them altogether and most of the rest--we suspect--from this side of the boundary.

The old man who was killed"-- Anderson raised his eyes abruptly to the speaker--"seems to have come from Nevada.