ing health, and of how she has had to do the work to hold the
job, and begs him not to tell. He promises, and then has her send
several messages for him in the name of the sheriff, and from his
expression as she is telegraphing, the audience will infer that he
has good and sufficient reason to know that the sheriff will not
arrive. He states to the several ranches where she wires for him that
he--the sheriff--will guard the Pass.

BROTHER, roused by voices, comes silently to the door. Their backs
are toward him and they do not see him. BROTHER hears her call him
"Mister Sheriff," stares, takes in the situation, his face speaking
his terror. He softly pulls the door to and disappears.

GIRL and MAN talk. He is a gay, dashing, Robin Hood sort of chap and
she is charmed. She asks him to step outside to see the gallant
little garden she is raising in the desert. They go out, and
instantly BROTHER creeps out, stumbles to table, waits until they are
out of hearing, sends a quick message. Then he creeps to the door and
conveys by his mutterings that he is going to untie THE HAWK's horse
and let him run away. Apparently the horse doesn't go, for he reaches
back, picks up a cane and leans out again. This time there is the
sound of skurrying hoofs and the horse tears away. BROTHER staggers
back into the rear room, closing the door.

MAN and GIRL rush in. He is desperate,--the horse,--a wild and
half-broken one, has made straight for the Pass. GIRL wants to wire
for another horse to be brought to him, but after a moment's grim
thought, he decides to jump on the eastbound train, due in a few
minutes, and go on to the next station, where he can get a good
horse.

Then there is a pretty scene between them, when she confesses her
pity for THE HAWK and her wicked hope that he may get away--"I can't
bear to have even _things_ hunted, let alone a man!"

THE MAN is touched, and tells her that he knows a good deal about the
bandit; that he has had a rotten deal straight through life; that
there's a streak of decency in him for all the yellow; that he's
heard that THE HAWK meant to make this his last job ... to go back
east again and make a fresh start....

THE GIRL, star-eyed and pink-cheeked now, tells him of her home "down
east," of how keen she was to come to the wild, wonderful west, of