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When
Phelim
had
at
length
unburdened
his
mind
,
Zeb
ceased
to
question
him
;
and
,
striding
out
of
the
hut
,
squatted
down
,
Indian
fashion
,
upon
the
grass
.
His
object
was
,
as
he
said
himself
,
to
have
"
a
good
think
;
"
which
,
he
had
often
declared
,
he
could
not
obtain
while
"
hampered
wi
'
a
house
abeout
him
.
"
It
is
scarcely
necessary
to
say
,
that
the
story
told
by
the
Galwegian
groom
only
added
to
the
perplexity
he
already
experienced
.
Hitherto
there
was
but
the
disappearance
of
Henry
Poindexter
to
be
accounted
for
;
now
there
was
the
additional
circumstance
of
the
non-return
of
the
mustanger
to
his
hut
--
when
it
was
known
that
he
had
started
for
it
,
and
should
,
according
to
a
notice
given
to
his
servant
,
have
been
there
at
an
early
hour
on
the
day
before
.
Far
more
mystifying
was
the
remarkable
story
of
his
being
seen
riding
about
the
prairie
without
a
head
,
or
with
one
carried
in
his
hands
!
This
last
might
be
a
trick
.
What
else
could
it
be
?
Still
was
it
a
strange
time
for
tricks
--
when
a
man
had
been
murdered
,
and
half
the
population
of
the
settlement
wore
out
upon
the
track
of
the
murderer
--
more
especially
improbable
,
that
the
supposed
assassin
should
be
playing
them
!
Zeb
Stump
had
to
deal
with
,
a
difficult
concatenation
--
or
rather
conglomeration
of
circumstances
--
events
without
causes
--
causes
without
sequence
--
crimes
committed
without
any
probable
motive
--
mysteries
that
could
only
be
explained
by
an
appeal
to
the
supernatural
.
A
midnight
meeting
between
Maurice
Gerald
and
Louise
Poindexter
--
a
quarrel
with
her
brother
,
occasioned
by
the
discovery
--
Maurice
having
departed
for
the
prairies
--
Henry
having
followed
to
sue
for
forgiveness
--
in
all
this
the
sequence
was
natural
and
complete
.
Beyond
began
the
chapter
of
confusions
and
contradictions
.
