"'He's gone wild again,' was all I could put my tongue to.
"Then I blurted it out. I had to get rid of the damned story some way, and
the quickest way seemed the best--how Dan rode into Alder and did the
killing.
"When I got to that she gave one cry."
"I know," said Buck, shuddering. "Like something dying."
"Then she asked me to saddle her horse. I begged her to let me go with her,
and she said to me what she just now said to you. And so I stayed. What
good could we do against that devil?"
Chapter XXIV. The Music
To the last ravine Kate's horse carried her easily enough, but that
mountain pass was impenetrable through all its length to anything except
the uncanny agility of Satan, and so she left the cow-pony in the bottom of
the gorge and climbed the last rise on foot.
On the mountainside above her, it was not easy to locate the cave, for the
slope was clawed into ravines and confused with meaningless criss-cross
gulches. Whatever scrub evergreens grew there stood under the shade of
boulders which threatened each instant to topple over and go thundering to
the base.
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