He gazed for some time before he seemed
entirely satisfied.
"A bunch of the boys crossin' the old ford," he said quietly. "Goin'
to picket the other bank, I reckon. There's likely to be some more
comin' down the opposite way from the bridge. That's Lacy's idea--to
starve us out."
"They seem quiet enough."
"There won't be any more fightin' unless we try to get away, I reckon.
They know we are armed and can shoot. You better keep down, though,
Jim, for they're sure a watchin' us all right, an' all Lacy cares about
is to put you out o' the way. He'd just as soon do it with a bullet as
a rope. Go on with your story."
Westcott told it simply, but in full detail, beginning with the
discovery of ore in his mine, and including his telegram to Fred
Cavendish; the discovery of what was supposed to be the dead body of
the latter in the Waldron Apartments, New York; the investigations into
the mystery of his death by Willis and Miss Donovan, and the
despatching of Miss Donovan to Haskell to intercept Enright's party;
the arrival of the latter and the events, so far as he understood them,
leading up to the forcible abduction of the girl.
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