The Hart boys lingered for a few minutes at
the store, and then rode on to the ranch without him, and the
Indians stole away over the hill to their camp. The coroner and
the sheriff accepted Pete's invitation into the back part of the
store, refreshed themselves after the ordeal, and caught the next
train for Shoshone. So closed the incident of Saunders' passing,
so far as the law was concerned.
"Well," Miss Georgie summed up the situation, "Baumberger hasn't
made any sign of taking up the matter. I don't believe, now,
that he will. I wired the news to the papers in Shoshone, so he
must know. I think perhaps he's glad to get Saunders out of the
way--for he certainly must have known enough to put Baumberger
behind the bars.
"But I don't see," she said, in a puzzled way, "how that gun came
onto the scene. I looked all around the stable this morning, and
I could swear there wasn't any gun."
"Well, he did pick it up--fortunately," Good Indian returned
grimly. "I'm glad the thing was settled so easily.
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