The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-07-24
cHAPTER XXI
4 osepsn-na Mtsterr.

I Deepening Mystery.
Startled and bewlldered as Eamlir
was ty this sudden reyealmeut. be at
ponce comprehended the embarrass-
meut of his own position He could
not confess al he knew. certainly not
The fact that me girl had met him Sc
cretly and had vanished while he was
erdesvoring no turn aside Mrs Du-
pC-t He must protect her az all haz-
ards To gain time. and self-c0ntrol
he replied wi,h q question
Did not Corrors drive them down.
sir2"
Yes the four Of them"
AND Major Mcdonald knew then
'Ear be was ordered Eas-2"
$50 the order came By telegram
later An orderly VAS sent down about
te. O'Clock But see here. Sergeant. I
am no Bureau Of Information u you
have anything 20 report make IL
l-.e..
HaUl- glanced az the face Of the
c-le- He knew little about him. eI-
rep- that be- had the reputation o. be-
Ing cara Bile officer.
% aI Elr." be responded quickly,
-g- may never have heard OF The af
.alr 1lt 7 was with EIss Mcdonald
during little Indian trouble out on
-a- trail "a Lea months axe
--a officer nodded
, heard about that. Casklus brought
ha- .r-
Wsl. ever since she has seemed
srateu. and friendly You know how
some women are. sel she is that
kind Tonight she came 10 me. be-
cause she didn't seem to know whom
else ro go ry. and told me OF some trgl-
BILE sl- was having realize, Captain
Kane that it may seem a bit strange
20 you that q young lady Ike Miss Nc.
Donald. au officers daughter. would
turn for help 10 an enlisted man. but
7 ann telling sou only Tie truth sir
You see. she got 20 into her head
somehow that J was square, aud-and
well. that ] cared enough 10 help her
Wait minute. Sergeant" broke ir
Kane, kindly, realizing the others EN-
barrassmeut, and resting one hand on
his sleeve You do not need to apollo
giZe for Miss Mcdonald ] know some
thing of what is going on at this post
although, damn me II I've ever got or
to the straight facts You mean tha
Dupont woman?"
Yes, she's concerned in the matter
but there are others also"
Why couldn't the girl tell her ia
ther?"
That Is where the main trouble lies
Captain. Major Mcdonald seems t
be completely under the control o
Mrs. Dupont. He is apparently afrait
Of her for some reason. That is wha
Miss Molly spoke TO me about. w,
were on the side porch at the hote
talking while the dancers were at SUP
pert was the only opportunity tn
girl had to get away-and Mrs. Dupon
and her husband came into the par
lOr-"
Her husband? Good Lord. / though
her husband was dead"
He isn't He's a tin-horn gambler
known in the saloons as 'Reb,' a bi
dufer. wearing a black beard"
All right 20 on; don't know him.
Ell EAtpptu lulO lut IOOm u
keep the two apart, leaving the cir
alone outside We had a bit OF tall
before / got the room cleared. an,
when ] went back to the porch Mis-
d Molly had gone
e Dropped over the railing to tn
I ground"
I That's what ! thought at the time
5 sill, but what happened 70 her afte
e that? She didn't return to the hotel
she was not at the dance hall. AM
J. hasn't come back 10 the post"
THE hell you say! Are you sure?"
r Il am. ! searched for her high an
I low before I left, and she could not ge
e In here without passing the guard
house"
b Kane stared into the Sergeants fac
I a moment, and then out across the pa
e rade ground yellow light winke
I'm the Colonels Office, OCCASIONAL
S blotted out by the passing figure OF
o sentry The officer came 10 a promp
{ decision.
The old man is over there yet
? grubbing al some papers. Come o.
over. and tell him what you have toll
s me. believe the lass will turn up al
right. but II does look rather queer "