Gentleman Joe's Leadville Lead — page 28: what you’re looking at

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‘But somebody knows that you came over to this place to-night. You left somebody back there in your den, and I know it. Yon came over here just prospecting, and then you were going back to report, or else you were going to— take the game back with you, just like the old spider that you are.’’ : Jared Joyce stared into the face of the girl, fairly speechless with surprise. It seemed to him that she had divined nearly all of his plans in detail. He wondered at that moment if she had been watching him. If she had been somewhere in the house and over- heard the conversation between himself and the High Roller. » | Upon no other hypothesis could he account for her im- mediate knowledge of the plan which had been formed and about which he had set to work. “I really believe that you have been eavesdropping!’’ he exclaimed, in a husky voice. ‘*Do you, really?’’ ‘I didn’t know that you were in the building—thought you had hired a house all by yourself.”’ ‘‘And you did not know that I was in Leadville?’’ “Yes, I heard it as soon as I got here.’”’ ‘‘No, you didn’t, oldman, for I wasn’t here then. I heard that you were here when [ got here. I guess that’s what you must have been thinking of, for I know it’s awfully hard for you to tell anything just as itis when there’s a way that it isn’t. But now are you going to tell me about the one you were plotting with against Kid-Glove Kit in your den to-night? He was a pretty good-looking young fellow, but I didn’t know his name.’’ Foxy Fan hazarded this remark wholly at random, for she did not know that there had been any one plotting with Jared Joyce against Kid-Glove Kit except what she inferred from the old man’s actions. And even if there had been some one in consultation with him she had not the faintest idea of who it could be. She had not yet had time to familiarize herself with the various schemes which were on foot in the new city. ns + WASTE Oia Gi Lin MS irks Beds ia PR - , s a af, ; - * oo . . - ¢ : Wee. @f . toe bg rs a y é ia Atot, i" 4 “ta =e art y t ‘. a4 “et he 7 a ae < . ey _ a ig « “ - P <7, *« 4” C P< micbooks.com