' My little gal would have paid her own
debt if she'd ever had the chance. She didn't--she's lying up on Mazy
Mountain. But one woman'll do a lot for the sake of another woman. Say,
you'll do it, won't you? If I don't git there by to-morrow noon, it's no
good."
She would not answer. He was asking more than he knew. Why should she
be sacrificed? Was it her duty to pay the "little gal's debt," to save
the man at Bindon? To-morrow was to be the great day in her own life.
The one man in all the world was coming to marry her to-morrow. After
four years' waiting, after a bitter quarrel in which both had been to
blame, he was coming from the mining town of Selby to marry her to-
morrow.
"What will happen? Why will your friend lose his life if you don't get
to Bindon?"
"By noon to-morrow, by twelve o'clock noon; that's the plot; that's what
they've schemed. Three days ago, I heard. I got a man free from trouble
North--he was no good, but I thought he ought to have another chance, and
I got him free. He told me of what was to be done at Bindon.
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