Williams news., 1922-12-29
~so T can suppose you left the

So I can suppose you left the note?''
 The circle laughed again, but Simon silenced them with a gesture. you're very keen." he said.
 Then where is Linda?" Bruce's eyes hardened. 'I am more interested in her whereabouts than in this talk with you."
 '"The last seen of her. she was going up hill with Dave. When Dave re- turns you can ask him."
 The bearded man opposite from Simon uttered . short syllable of a laugh And it don't look like he's go- Ing to return" he said. The knowing look on his face was deeply abhorrent to Bruce. Curfously, Simon's face flushed, and he whirled in his chair
 DO you mean anything in particu- lar, Old Bill?' he demanded.
 "It looks to me like maybe Dave's forgot a lot of things you told him, and he and Linda are havin' little sparkfn' time together out in the brush"
 The idea seemed to please the clan. But Simon's eyes glowed, and Bruce himself felt the beginnings of a blind rage that might. unless he held hard upon it, hurl him against their re- l more such talk out of you, Old Bill," Simon reproved him, "and we've talked enough, anyway" His keen eyes stud jed Bruce's flushed face. "One of you give our guest a chair and fix him up in it with thong. We don't want him flying off the coop and getting shot until we're done talking to him."
 One of the clanSmen pushed chair forward with sudden force, striking Bruce in the knees and almost knock ing him over. The circle leered, and he sat down in 1t with as much ease as possible. Then one of the men looped his arms to the arms of the chair with thongs of buckskin. Anoth- CT thong was tied about his ankles. Then the clansmen went back to their chairs.
 'T really don't see the use of all these dramatics." Bruce said coldly And I don't particularly like yelled threats. At present I seem to be in your hands"
 "You don't seem to be-" Simon an- swered with reckoning eyes "You are"
 "I have no intention of saying I'm sorry didn't heed the threats you gave me before-and as to those I've heard tonight-they're not going to do you any good. either. 1t Is true that you found me in the house you occu- py in the dead of night-but it isn't your house to start with. What man seizes by murder isn't his.'
 What a man holds with a hard fist and his rif1e-in these mountains@s his," Simon contradicted him.
 Besides, you got me here with trick" Bruce went on without heed ing him. "So don't pretend that any wickedness you do tonight was 5ustf- fled by my coming. You'll have to an- swer for it just the same"
 Simon leaned forward in his chair. His dark eyes glowed in the lamp light. '1've heard such talk as that before," he said. "I expect your own father talked like that a few times himself"
 The words seemed to strike straight home to the gathered Turner's. The moment was breathleSs, weighted with suspense All of them seemed strain ing in their chairs.
 Bruce's head bowed, but the veins stood out beneath the short hair on his temples, and his lips trembled when he answered. That was a great CT wickedness than anything you can do tonight And you'll have to answer for it all the more."
 He spoke the last sentence with a calm assurance Though spoken soft
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