Sadie peered in once more and, seeing all was clear,
crossed over beside Westcott.
"Well, as I was sayin'," she resumed, "I thought I heard a noise
outside, an' got up an' went to the winder. I couldn't see much, not
'nough so I could swear to nuthin'; but there was three or four men out
there just across that little gully, you know, an' they had a woman
with 'em. She didn't scream none, but she was tryin' ter git away;
wunst she run, but they caught her. I didn't see no wagon then, it was
behind the ridge, I reckon. After a while it drove off down the south
trail, an' a little later three men come up them outside stairs back
into the hotel. They was mighty still 'bout it, too."
"You couldn't tell who they were?"
"They wa'n't like nuthin' but shadders; it was a purty dark night."
"So it was, Sadie. Do you imagine Timmons had anything to do with the
affair?"
"Timmons? Not him. There wa'n't no figure like his in that bunch; I'd
know him in the dark."
"But the woman might not have been Miss Donovan; isn't there another
young lady here from the East?"
Sadie tossed her head, but with her eyes cautiously fixed on the office
door.
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