" Then he smiled. And his smile was more
maddening to the woman than his words. "Don't worry a thing. You're
going to get your dollars if there's anything I can do to help you, and
when you've got 'em--why, if the merciful God we've both been brought
up to believe in is all we believe Him, I shan't be around to watch you
dirtying your hands with them."
Then with a swift, alert movement he raised a warning hand.
"H'sh!"
For some seconds they remained listening. Far away to the southeast a
low murmuring note came over the low hills. The girl remained with
eyes straining to pierce the starlit monotone. The man rose slowly
from his seat. Finally he turned about and faced her, and his eyes
smiled into hers.
"The hanging bee," he said.
CHAPTER VI
THE RAIDERS RAIDED
It was the gap where the screen of bush broke off, leaving the barren
shoulder overlooking the valley. It was where the hard-beaten,
converging cattle-paths hurled themselves over the brink to the wide
depths below.
The stillness that prevailed was unbroken by a single night sound.
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