Terror seized her.
"What is that?"
"You must return to the house. They must not see you here."
She clung to him with the wail of a breaking heart.
"It is the sheriff and his deputies. This morning George and I were on
the Folsom stage. We were stopped by a deputy sheriff and sternly
requested to alight. We entered into conversation with the gentleman of
the law - whom I had met several times before" (with a grim smile), "and
finally George, with due deference to authority, demanded to be shown
the warrant for our arrest.
"Whilst the simple creature was fumbling for it, we opened fire and,
springing from the top of the stage, escaped across Harmon Hill. The
vain fellow carried only a derringer, and how was one little bullet to
stop our race for liberty."
"Yet you returned here! That was madness."
"I heard of you and the longing to see you once more overcame every
other feeling."
"Do not fear, I knew that they would come. What was that to pay for the
chance of seeing you again. They can but put me in Auburn jail, and no
locks can hold me except the shining ones on this dear head.
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