The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-11-10

! home, Colonel Button and Captain sum
! ter quarrel over Lanier's case
/ Fort Cushing has blizzard. Major
I Scott. paymaster. Is lost Fitzroy ac-
| cuses Rawdon OF attacking Scott Mlri-
! ANS fright was caused by a thief IN her
! Foom. Lanier gives whisky to two freeZ-
I ing soldiers. Quinlan and Cassidy gum
/ Ian ands Kawdon's- cap at-Lanlcr.s house.
CHAPTER ".
~ VEN as Mrs. sumter strove TO ar
sure Miss Arnold that mill
tary arrest was far more por-
tentous In sound that In effect.
something In Rates determined silence
and Mirinms inslstence added to the
effect OF these rumors.
Then another thing weighed heavily
upon the brave heart of this loving
friend and mother Never had she
known her child 10 be so silent. so
strange. as now Ever since Friday
night she seemed To avoid all mention
OF the affair, to shrink from the sub
ject-she who had ever been frankness
Itself. she who had never had
thought the mother did not share. She
seemed oppressed with some secret.
But why should the situation so
strangely affect her daughter? Could
II be that she too, cared for Bob La
nier?
She was writing her reply TO his
note when Maggie again appeared
-Two gentlemen 10 see the captain,
num-" and Mrs. Sumter hurriedly
closed the note and went below stairs
10 meet them. She knew well who
they were and why they had come.
A branch office of the Rocky Mountain
Detective agency had been maintained
long months at the great and growing
railway station. They had been sum
moned by her husband. and that was
enough
They asked to be shown the room,
with the storm battered dormer, by
this time emptied of its load OF snow.
They asked TO see Miriam's desk
They smiled at the idea OF the pay
master being held up and robbed in
broad daylight by any gang in their
neighborhood
there came sounds Of stamping feet
at the front door. and I'm came Sumter.
stifr from cold. but brimful of energy.
Found Scott and his clerk. at least
he cried. Most dead and half frozen,
The drivers gone, fear He was
blown or pitched OF The mules ran
away before the gale Those inside
the ambulance were helpless. Two
dropped Off behind and are lost The
thing finally capslzed and went 10
pieces. and they managed to reach n
little cattle shack two miles south OF
town. They've found Lanier's striker,
too-whats left Of him"
BY this time Kate had come down
stairs.
Have they found Rawdon?" she
asked fearfully.
"No. not a sign OF him anywhere"
us that the young fellow that those
sergeants have been hunting forg'
asked one of the detectives. I'VE
to find out about him. He
was I'm town ns early as O'Clock Fri |
day. and he left on No. that night"
do you mean TO tell me-" said SUM |
ter. gazing blankly nj the speaker. |
that he wasn't out here when-this--
"Not unless he had wings! That /
train leaves at ll:40."
Another day went by. Major Scott
and his clerk. under Larrabee's skill
'u touch. were gradually regaIning
strength and beginning TO answer
questions. The ambulance was cur
tanned in even at the rear. through
which the two scared troopers had
to slip to their doom. Not
until the SHOWS melted I'm the spring
and the contents of the ravines should
be revealed was it likely they would
be heard OF again. The railway was
still blocked. The wires were still
Town. Fort Cushing stood isolated from
he outer world. and no less than five
" its garrison were absent and unac-
counted for. The two men detailed to
irive In with the paymaster two bac-
canadians who. being in town when
he storm broke. had dared each other
o fSe the gale and tramp out. and
inally young trooper named Cary.
Who had arrived with the same re-
ruit squad that brought them Rawdon
md had been on terms of friendship, If
lot, Indeed, of intimacy. with him.
Along toward dusk on Tuesday 9TH
rs of the searching squadron sent
far down the valley had come back.
eporting that the ambulance mules
we're found, huddled together, half
tarved and still half harnessed. in a
og shack or shelter to which their
instinct had guided them after their