Gentleman Joe's Leadville Lead — page 68: what you’re looking at

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‘You wouldn’t tell him what you knew! What do you mean?”’ ‘‘I mean that you didn’t tell me all the truth.” ‘‘How do you know that?’’ ‘“Because somebody told me. I have been in Leadville long enough to get the confidence of one person, and now I am going to ask you to tell me truly whether you killed Hime Henderson or not? Remember that if you did and Say you did, that the fact will never pass my lips after if goes in at my ears. You must tell me the truth for I know a part of it already!”’ I'he young man looked at her sharply, and his hand as he raised it was seen to tremble. “What do you know?’’ he demanded. I know that you went into Jared Joyce’s room not five minutes before Hime Henderson was killed, and that you didn’t come out of it until after the crime was committed! That’s what I know, Kid-Glove Kit, and I know it straight! What have you to say to it?”’ The young man sank back upon the chair where he had been sitting as if he were weak and faint. “You know too much,’’ he mumbled. ‘I know just what I have told you, and now I want you to tell me the rest of it. The chain of evidence is complete if I choose to tell it. You were in that room when Hime Henderson was killed, and you wanted him to die! Now, straight now, did you do it?”’ CHAPTER IX, PARSON JIM’S LITTLE PLAY. Just fourteen miles out of Leadville, on a lonely summit overlooking a dismal gorge, stood Kid-Glove Kit. He was alone. ; Dressed in a suit of buckskin trimmed fanciful] y, Indian fashion, he hardly looked like the same young man who had come to Leadville in such immaculate attire that he had won the appellation by which he was commonly known. He had reached this spot without the aid cf a horse. Indeed, although Gentleman Joe had proffered him so much assistance on the condition of his accepting it and * 7 e ss ~ * ; ; : - te ; * ! ep *, - pe, Ze.) we 2 . “= ig: | r \ ~ yr} sf Ne 4 ast ’ Z AZ és Sate: ~~ COMICDOOKS. )