I knew if I could keep him here until you came you would be able to fix it up some way--to prove his innocence.

I was so glad, when I ran upstairs to get some money for him and looked out of the window.

For you were coming.

But he wouldn't stay." Toban dismounted and stood in front of her, his eyes probing into hers.
"I've got evidence that he didn't kill Sharp," he said; "I saw the whole deal.

But I reckon," he added, a subtle gleam in his eyes, "that it's just as well that he's gone--he was a heap of trouble while he was here, anyway, wasn't he ?" "No," she said quickly, defiantly; "he--" She broke off and looked at him with wide eyes.