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"Your actions convict you"
"So you think Isn't it just possible you don't understand them?" There was the faintest hint of derision in his polite inquiry
A light flashed in her dusky eyes, a shining hope newborn in her eager heart "Are you telling uilty, then," he countered swiftly
"What else could I think?"
"You ht have waited to hear the defense"
"If you had stayed to make one, but you ran away"
"How do you know I did?"
"You were gone when the officers reached your carim and his voice defiant "There was a man up in the hills I wanted to see in a hurry"
By the look in her eyes it was as if he had struck her With fine contempt her answer came "Was there another man up there in the rocks just now that you had to see until the deputy left?"
"Anyhow, there was a young woman down by the banks of Sunbeaitive clailowed delicately beneath the olive of her cheeks "Evasions--nothing but evasions"
She turned away, sick at heart He had treated with flippancy the chance she had given him Would an innocent man have done that?
Swift as an arrow his hand shot out, caught her shoulder, and held her firmly The eyes that lifted to his flao like this Don't think it"
"Sir"
"You'll do me justice first" His hand dropped from her shoulder, but the masterful look of hiot against ht be, but surely no criminal--if there was any truth in faces
What she had heard against hi horses like yours You left the fair grounds early You and your friend were seen going into the corral where you had stabled the animals This was less than half an hour before the robbery When you passed us on the road you were anxious about so You looked back two or three times Both you and Mr Colter showed you were in a hurry Then you ran away before the sheriff reached your camp Does an innocent man do that?" She put her question as an accusation, but in the voice was a little tremble that asked to be refuted
"Sometimes he does Now listen to me The horses ridden by the robbers were Colter's and mine We certainly orried about the time we met you And we did break cauilty?"