Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
William MacLeod Raine
Language: English
Pages: 154
ISBN: 1519554370
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
William MacLeod Raine was an American author who wrote classic adventure novels about the Wild West.
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Happened to notice this window here was open a little. It just came over me that mebbe we might discover some evidence here. So I got in by the window, saw the body of the Jap, an' called my friend." "Some one hire you to hunt up evidence?" the officer wanted to know with heavy sarcasm. "I hired myself. My good name is involved. I'm goin' to see the murderer is brought to justice." "You are, eh?" "Yes." "Well, I'll say you could find him if anybody could." "You're entitled to your opinion,.
Came to Jack and me with her story, we respected it. We did not insist on knowing why she was there, and it was of her own free will she told us. Yet you go to our friend and distress her by implications that must shock and wound her. Was that generous? Was it even fair?" The cattleman stood convicted at the bar of his own judgment. His cousins had been magnanimous to Esther and Rose, more so than he had been to Miss Harriman. Yet, even while he confessed fault, he felt uneasily that there was a.
Inquest. What was that disagreement about?" "Find out! I'll never tell you." "Was it because you tried to defend James to him—tried to get him to forgive the treachery of his fiancée and his nephew?" Again Jack shot at him a look of perplexed and baffled wonder. That brown, indomitable face, back of which was so much strength of purpose and so much keenness of apprehension, began to fill him with alarm. This man let no obstacles stop him. He would go on till he had uncovered the whole tangle.
The jumps. The sooner the quicker. How about to-morrow morning?" "Suits me, too. But will he go with us?" "He'll go with us," Kirby said quietly. Chapter XXXV - Like a Thief in the Night * From ten thousand bulbs the moving-picture houses of Curtis Street were flinging a glow upon the packed sidewalks when Kirby came out of the hotel and started uptown. He walked to the Wyndham, entered, and slipped up the stairs of the rooming-house unnoticed. From the third story he ascended by a ladder.
Facts," Lane said. "But there's evidence to show that he has ruined a young girl in his office. She practically admits that he's the man. I happen to be a friend of her family, an' I'm goin' to call him to account. He can't get away with it." Kirby chanced to be looking at his cousin Jack. What he saw in that young man's eyes surprised him. There were astonishment, incredulity, and finally a cunning narrowing of the black pupils. It was James who spoke. His face was grave. "That's a serious.