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The next day was a day of dust hanging always over the grade because of e faces whose eyes peered curiously at the place where Bauer fell, and at the cold ashes of Stanley's campfire, and at the Harts and their house, and their horses and all things pertaining in the reriic "curtain" They stared up at the riued over the question of ood shot to fire fro of Baus of tobacco and much expectoration--the case and rendered a unani before the coroner arrived "Done just right," was the verdict of Public Opinion, and the self-constituted judgesGood Indian upon the back when they had a chance, or by sole hiood All of which Grant interpreted correctly as sympathy and a desire to show him that they did not look upon hie to defend hier

With everything so agreeably disposed of according to the crude--though none the less true, perhaps--ethics of the time and the locality, it was tacitly understood that the coroner and the inquest he held in the grove beside the house were a eneral tension , in their official capacity, to the evidence they had heard and discussed freely hours before, bent heads and whispered briefly together There was also a corresponding atmosphere of relief when the verdict of Public Opinion was called justifiable homicide by the coroner and so stamped with official approval

When that was done they carried Baurade to the station; and the dust of his passing settled upon the straggling crowd that censured his misdeeds and mourned not at all, and yet paid tribute to his dead body with lowered voices while they spoke of hih box was lowered to the station platforrows blue and deep and unfathohten and nod graciously to the little cloud-boats that sail the blue above, and wave dainty finger-tips of branches in bon voyage, so did the Peaceful Hart ranch, when the dust had settled after the latest departure and the whistle of the train--which bore the coroner and that other quiet passenger--cah of relief into its old, easy habits of life