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out with dark menace.
do you dare threaten a witness in
Her MajesH's Court7" Judge Dugas
demanded.
Muttering something, Fa1lon bit his
tongue and waited.
Il was crossing a planked side
walk" continued Rose, when I
almost bumped into man stepping
down from the porch of the Nevada
Hotel. His face came back to me
over a long gap of time as well as
distance. He'd changed some. l
| passed him blank.
"We met again in a place where
sang, and he invited me to drink
something. I did, because it was
rather funny to talk to a man who'd
tricked me with April Fool candy
( the way he'd done and not be re-
| membered.
80 l said, Your face looks kind
of familiar. Haven't l seen it
tackled up in the post Office or
somewhere?
"He almost jumped. I hadn't
| had a notice how near the truth a
reward poster might be. When l
smiled, he gave laugh that sound
ed fat.
you've got the start on me,
| baby he said, patting my hand.
| The nearest | ever come to i'm
aginin' you was a fool kid met
| once in Frisco. You're pretty wise
and you've been around. Maybe
as a woman, you can answer ques-
ton that got me curious once. 1t
just come into my mind. Do you
believe a girl could be brought up
as boy without anyone on the out
side guessin' it9'
est depends on the girl and the
surroundings I said, still not sus-
pecting anything in particular. I
think it could happen, but | wouldn't
bet on a particular case without see
ing the boy you suppose to be a
girl
We'll, you'll never see him"
Fal1on said, little too offhand. "It
just come into my mind
He started his meaningless love-
making again and l left him.
"What he'd said chimed with
something else in my memory.
Though / didn't recall right at first
what it was, I kept looking as l
played the camp for a boy who
might not be so boyish except for
the clothes. The only one l noticed
was a boy with gold hair. He
didn't look girlish-wore his clothes,
I mean, as if he had right to them.
But it struck me that I could have
dressed him up as a stunning girl,
and it was crime to Gee hair like
his wasted on a boy. He was with
an older, whisky-faced man I'd
never seen in the camps before, and
whose name / learned to be Owens
The man was buying an outfit to &c
to Alaska.
"Owens are uncommon, but 1t was
the name of the rancher May had
married, and with that l remem-
bered, in a shock of understanding
that the child left at the ranch house
had blonde hair and had been
dressed as boy.
Dalton had gone North. Owens
had staked him. A man like Mays
lOwens wouldn't make that trip
without a solid lead to go on. |
remembered his passion for gold
Dalton must have made strike and
sent for him.
Certain this was the same man.
II wondered how much Fallon had
guessed. Maybe he just suspected
la girl in boys clothes and was curl
Gus. She was young and innocent
and he liked them that way. Her
name, Pete was a boy-like as pos
sible, but since it didn't fit her ap-
| pearance, it was a kind of give
| away"
The chortling voice of the river
ripple through the silence as Rose
paused. Speed leaned on the bar
of the prisoners dock, intently
watching her across the relocated
shoulder of the police guard. Fa1-
lon half-reclined in his chair, in a
smouldering silence-the sheathed
fire of one who holds final answer
in reserve.
THAT same night, the big Yukon
news came down on the wires from
Seattle. Prospectors who had been
waiting and ready were pulling
stakes for San Francisco and the
first steamers. Owens beat the gun
| by starting ahead of them and
showed that he'd had definite lead
on something.
"I caught train for Seattle, and
overlook Fallon's steamer there. He
was wary enough to keep Owens
out of my way. Pete avoided me
of her own accord. Ny talking to
Fallon may have given her the idea
| 1 was a friend of his, and she mis-
trusted him by instinct
"Fallon started the rancher Ow-
ems drinking and gambling-a first
sign that he had guessed true about
the gold. That it was true, l made
sure in more direct way"
Wade rose to object.
"Your Honor" he said, "I have
listened to the witnesses vivid story
without offering an objection till
now. I feel it my duty, as counsel
for the Crown, to object to it as
theoretical and move that it be
thrown out
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