I shot her." Vic gasped.

"You ?" "They'd busted her leg.

I put her out of pain." Gregg dropped into a chair.

It was not altogether an affectation, not altogether a piece of skilful acting now, for though the sheriff had told him all that happened he had not had a chance to feel the truth; but now it swept over him, all her tricks, all her deviltry, all that long companionship.

His head bowed.
No smile touched the faces of the others in the room, but a reverent silence fell on the room.