"He's going to kill me!" He tried to get on his elbows, his hands and knees, but could not, broken down as he was.

He was abject--an evil man overtaken by an evil fate.
"Where is she ?" repeated Sim Gage.

"Tell me!" "I tell you I don't know.

She ran off, that way." "That's the car that brung her up!" said Wid Gardner, motioning toward the ragged tire of the rear wheel.

"See that tire, Sim?
That's the car! She's been here." "Go see if you can git the trail, Wid," said Sim Gage to his friend.
"Quick!" Sim himself passed for a moment, hurriedly, to the car which had brought his party up.