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Are
you
keeping
anything
from
me
?
Tell
me
what
it
all
means
.
Oh
,
why
are
you
getting
—
these
?
”
She
caught
his
arm
,
looking
with
intense
eagerness
into
his
face
.
She
half
understood
already
.
Annixter
saw
that
.
“
Well
,
”
he
said
,
lamely
,
“
YOU
know
—
it
may
not
come
to
anything
at
all
,
but
you
know
—
well
,
this
League
of
ours
—
suppose
the
Railroad
tries
to
jump
Quien
Sabe
or
Los
Muertos
or
any
of
the
other
ranches
—
we
made
up
our
minds
—
the
Leaguers
have
—
that
we
wouldn
’
t
let
it
.
That
’
s
all
.
”
“
And
I
thought
,
”
cried
Hilma
,
drawing
back
fearfully
from
the
case
of
rifles
,
“
and
I
thought
it
was
a
wedding
present
.
”
And
that
was
their
home
-
coming
,
the
end
of
their
bridal
trip
.
Through
the
terror
of
the
night
,
echoing
with
pistol
shots
,
through
that
scene
of
robbery
and
murder
,
into
this
atmosphere
of
alarms
,
a
man
-
hunt
organising
,
armed
horsemen
silhouetted
against
the
horizons
,
cases
of
rifles
where
wedding
presents
should
have
been
,
Annixter
brought
his
young
wife
to
be
mistress
of
a
home
he
might
at
any
moment
be
called
upon
to
defend
with
his
life
.
The
days
passed
.
Soon
a
week
had
gone
by
.
Magnus
Derrick
and
Osterman
returned
from
the
city
without
any
definite
idea
as
to
the
Corporation
’
s
plans
.
Lyman
had
been
reticent
.
He
knew
nothing
as
to
the
progress
of
the
land
cases
in
Washington
.
There
was
no
news
.
The
Executive
Committee
of
the
League
held
a
perfunctory
meeting
at
Los
Muertos
at
which
nothing
but
routine
business
was
transacted
.
A
scheme
put
forward
by
Osterman
for
a
conference
with
the
railroad
managers
fell
through
because
of
the
refusal
of
the
company
to
treat
with
the
ranchers
upon
any
other
basis
than
that
of
the
new
grading
.
It
was
impossible
to
learn
whether
or
not
the
company
considered
Los
Muertos
,
Quien
Sabe
,
and
the
ranches
around
Bonneville
covered
by
the
test
cases
then
on
appeal
.
Meanwhile
there
was
no
decrease
in
the
excitement
that
Dyke
’
s
hold
-
up
had
set
loose
over
all
the
county
.
Day
after
day
it
was
the
one
topic
of
conversation
,
at
street
corners
,
at
cross
-
roads
,
over
dinner
tables
,
in
office
,
bank
,
and
store
.
S
.
Behrman
placarded
the
town
with
a
notice
of
$
500
.
00
reward
for
the
ex
-
engineer
’
s
capture
,
dead
or
alive
,
and
the
express
company
supplemented
this
by
another
offer
of
an
equal
amount
.
The
country
was
thick
with
parties
of
horsemen
,
armed
with
rifles
and
revolvers
,
recruited
from
Visalia
,
Goshen
,
and
the
few
railroad
sympathisers
around
Bonneville
and
Guadlajara
.
One
after
another
of
these
returned
,
empty
-
handed
,
covered
with
dust
and
mud
,
their
horses
exhausted
,
to
be
met
and
passed
by
fresh
posses
starting
out
to
continue
the
pursuit
.
The
sheriff
of
Santa
Clara
County
sent
down
his
bloodhounds
from
San
Jose
—
small
,
harmless
-
looking
dogs
,
with
a
terrific
bay
—
to
help
in
the
chase
.
Reporters
from
the
San
Francisco
papers
appeared
,
interviewing
every
one
,
sometimes
even
accompanying
the
searching
bands
.
Horse
hoofs
clattered
over
the
roads
at
night
;
bells
were
rung
,
the
“
Mercury
”
issued
extra
after
extra
;
the
bloodhounds
bayed
,
gun
butts
clashed
on
the
asphalt
pavements
of
Bonneville
;
accidental
discharges
of
revolvers
brought
the
whole
town
into
the
street
;
farm
hands
called
to
each
other
across
the
fences
of
ranch
-
divisions
—
in
a
word
,
the
country
-
side
was
in
an
uproar
.
And
all
to
no
effect
.
The
hoof
-
marks
of
Dyke
’
s
horse
had
been
traced
in
the
mud
of
the
road
to
within
a
quarter
of
a
mile
of
the
foot
-
hills
and
there
irretrievably
lost
.
Three
days
after
the
hold
-
up
,
a
sheep
-
herder
was
found
who
had
seen
the
highwayman
on
a
ridge
in
the
higher
mountains
,
to
the
northeast
of
Taurusa
.
And
that
was
absolutely
all
.
Rumours
were
thick
,
promising
clews
were
discovered
,
new
trails
taken
up
,
but
nothing
transpired
to
bring
the
pursuers
and
pursued
any
closer
together
.
Then
,
after
ten
days
of
strain
,
public
interest
began
to
flag
.
It
was
believed
that
Dyke
had
succeeded
in
getting
away
.
If
this
was
true
,
he
had
gone
to
the
southward
,
after
gaining
the
mountains
,
and
it
would
be
his
intention
to
work
out
of
the
range
somewhere
near
the
southern
part
of
the
San
Joaquin
,
near
Bakersfield
.
Thus
,
the
sheriffs
,
marshals
,
and
deputies
decided
.
They
had
hunted
too
many
criminals
in
these
mountains
before
not
to
know
the
usual
courses
taken
.
In
time
,
Dyke
MUST
come
out
of
the
mountains
to
get
water
and
provisions
.
But
this
time
passed
,
and
from
not
one
of
the
watched
points
came
any
word
of
his
appearance
.
At
last
the
posses
began
to
disband
.
Little
by
little
the
pursuit
was
given
up
.
