The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-29

disappointed as the message left
= Key, it determined his elton. and as
the train steamed out Of San Louis II
fol While diverted his attention from
the object Of his pursuit. In any event
his destination would have been Skin
ner's or the Hollow, as the point from
which to begin his search. He be-
heved with Sister Seraphlna that the
young girl would make her direct ap-
peal to her brother: but even if she
sought Mrs. Barker, it would still be
al some Of the haunts of the gang.
The letter to the Lady Superior had
been postmarked from Bald Ton
which Key knew to be an obscure
settlement less frequented than Skin
ner's. Even then it was hardly pos
sIble that the chief of the road agents
would present himself at the post
office, and it had probably been left
by some less known Of the gang. A
vague idea-that was hardly a sus-
plclon, that the girl might have a
secret address of her brothers, with
out understanding the reasons for it's
secrecy-came into his mind. A still
more vague hope that he might meet
her before she found her brother M
held him. II would be an accidental
meeting on her part, for he no longer
dared to hope that she would seek To
trust MN again. And it was with
very little of his old sanguine quality
mat, traVel-worn and weary, he at
last ahghted at SINNERS. But his
half careless inquiry If any ladv mas
senSer had lately arrived there, to his
embarrassment produced broad
smile on the face of Skinner.
cure the second man that asked
that question. Mr.. Key" he said
The second man?" calculated Kew.
nervously. ~
Yes; the first was the Sheriff of
SHASTA: He wanted to find tan,
good locking woman, about so VIII
blacl eyes. I hope that amt the Kind
o girl you're looking arter-is it? For
1 reckon she's gin you both the slim
AeN protested with q forced laugh
mat IL was not, yet suddenly hesitate
co TO describe Alice. For he Instantly
recognized the portrait of her friend
the assumed Mrs. Barker. skinner
continued IN lazy confidence:
re see they say that the sheriff had
horIer got the dead wood on that pane
o road agents, and had hemmed S 'ars,
IN somewhat betwixt Bald Ton and
CoAlnsons. But that woman was one
their spies and spotted his littIe
game and managed to give 'en the
Up SO they got clean away. Anyhow
they amt been heard from since R,,t
tne Dig shake has made scoutin' alone
the ledges rather stiff work for tbe
sheriH They say the valley near LONG
canyons chock full o. rock and SLIM
suilion that's slipped down.
what 40 you mean by the big
snare! asked Key in surprise.
Great Scott you didn't hear of II .
Dldn hear of the earthquake that
shook US up all along GaiIoper,s tbe
oIner night? Well" he added disgust
ediy, that's jist the conceit of fber,
lolks IN the bay; they can't allow THAI
any y, lhlhg happens in the mountains"
Inc urgent kilograms of his forenoa,,
now mashed across Keys preoccupied |
mind. Possibly Skinner saw his cor
Germ. I reckon your mine is all riobt
Mr.. Key. One Of your men was oI,eg. |
yere last night, and didn't say moth |
But this did not satisfy Kew. and IN
a lew minutes he had mounted his !
morse and was speeding toward the
bolIoW, with a remorseful conscious
ness OF having neglected his colleapuec. |
interests. For himself, in the utter |
prepossess1on Of his passion for Alica |
he cared nothing. As he dashed dow !
the Slope to the Hollow he tbougbt I
only OF the two momentous DAYS that !
she had passed there, and the fate that
Aad brought them so nearly together
Ihere was nothing to recall its sylvan
beauty in the hideous works that now
possessed 1t, or the substantial dwell
ing mouse that had taken the place Of /