Then she stepped back, and
contradicted them with a little laugh. "I will get fired sure
for staying over my time," she said. "I'll wire for the coroner
soon as I get to the office. This will never come to a trial,
Grant. He was like a crazy man, and we all saw him shoot first."
She waited until he had passed through and was a third of the way
to the stable where Peaceful Hart and his boys were gathered, and
then she followed him briskly, as if her mind was taken up with
her own affairs.
"It's a shame yon fellows got cheated out of a scrap," she
taunted Jack, who held her horse for her while she settled
herself in the saddle. "You were all spoiling for a fight--and
there did seem to be the makings of a beautiful row!"
Save for the fact that she kept her eyes studiously turned away
from a certain place near by, where the dust was pressed down
smoothly with the weight of a heavy body, and all around was
trampled and tracked, one could not have told that Miss Georgie
remembered anything tragic.
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