The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-06-28

will ask my father about it. He has
got the entire Maxwiltoon genealogy
tucked away in his head ever ready
for instant reference. He will be
likely to know; or, of not that, he'll
be more likely to know how to make
guesses about it than we are"
Betty kissed Katherine good night.
She started for the door and stepped
half way to it.
katherine? ?" she began.
eyes? What now Betty?"
"Do you think that Mr.. Belknap
could have known the senorita some
where, sometime, before we met her
her here?"
"What a question: Why?"
81 have heard that when people
walk in their sleep they follow out
ideas that were predominant before
| they went to sleep. And-and, hon
estly, Kitten, l don't believe he was
asleep any more than / am now"
why, Betty!"
"You just wait a minute. l saw
himi before l came into this room. /
was on my way 10 find if you were
still up up and to show you that pict-
ure. l saw him in the hall and
! lodged into the room that Bing al
ways reserves for Mr.. Chester.
peeked out when he passed the door,
and saw him plainly, and if ever any
body was wide awake in this world he
he was. He was scowling and show
ing his teeth and as mad as a bear
with a sore paw. Asleep? l reckon
not! And he went straight to the
senoriita's door as a shot out of &
gun. He raped on it, too; and kept
on rapping just as if he had a right
to do it; or if not that, as if he knew
that he could make her answer him
whether she wanted to Or not. And
was scared out of my wits when
sneaked along the hall to this door
afraid that he would see me; but h
didn't; and you could have knocked
me down with a cobweb when l founC
the s~enoritia here. And, Kitten"
"Well, dear?"
"While I am on. the subject, there i
something else that 1 want to say
Tom doesn't like the man, and
don't, either. Tom has put Rodne,
Rushton onto his track, and"
! "What?" Katherine cried out.
q "Well. what of it? He has, any
how whether you like it or not. Tor
thinks that"
s A wild cry like the screams of
e banshee, instantly followed by thre
pistol shots in succession, in~terTupte
her and both young women stoo
a spellbound and frightened.
GgTLn-- ~-,o f.o.o ,1,4-.Ia F1.0.
the gardsn-didn't they?" Katherin
IS asked breathlessly.
e Il wonder" Betty said, eff Belkna
went back to the senorita's room I
n wait for herr"
u The wild scream and the pisto
II shots that followed it momentariil
paralyzed every energy that Katie
n Inc and Betty possessed, coming upC
S them as they did at the momel
when they were about to part for IL
t, night.
is But the effect on them lasted on.
< for a moment. Both of the your
IS women recovered their self-posse
z, sion instantly, and each of them WI
courageous, ~resOurceful and quick
act.
~ Betty Clancy seized upon the doc
&c opened it, and sprang into the hall
for she was equally convinced tn
Oh the sounds came from within Il
>. house; that is to say, both acted upI
&c the impulse of the moment ,witho
ey thought.
ne Each of them was. in part, right.
Katherine, as cool as ever she h;
le been in the old days Of her poll
experiences was quickly outside
the balcony, and bending over the ri
of it, peering eagerly this way a
Il that; and she aw-or thought S
a