es everywhere but on
Lorraine's face. "Brit Hunter's daughter--they say."

"They _say_? I _am_ his daughter! How dare you take that tone, Mr
Hawkins? My home is at the Quirt. When you strike at the Quirt you
strike at me. When you strike at me I am going to strike back. Since
I came here two men have been killed and my father has been nearly
killed. He may die yet--I don't know what effect this shock will have
upon him. But I know that Frank is dead, and that it's up to me now to
see that justice is done. You--you cowards! You will kill a man for
the sake of a few dollars, but you kill in the dark. You cover your
murders under the pretence of accidents. I want to tell you this: Of
all the men you have murdered, Frank Johnson will be avenged. You are
going to answer for that. I shall see that you do answer for it!
There is justice in this country, there _must_ be. I'm going to demand
that justice shall be measured out to you. I----"

"Was she violent, before?" Senator Warfield asked Hawkins in an
undertone which Lorraine heard distinctly. "You're a deputy, Hawkins.
If this keeps on, I'm afraid you will have to take her in and have her
committed for insanity. It's a shame, poor thing. At her age it is
pitiful. Look how she has ridden that horse! Another mile would have
finished him."

"Do you mean to say you think I'm crazy? What an idea! It seems to
me, Senator Warfield, that you are crazy yourself, to imagine that you
can go on killing people and thinking you will never have to pay the
penalty. You will pay. There is law in this land, even if----"

"This is pathetic," said Senator Warfield, still speaking to Hawkins.
"Her father--if he is her father--is sick and not able to take care of
her. We'll have to assume the responsibility ourselves, I'm afraid,
Hawkins. She may harm herself, or----"

Lorraine turned white. She had never seen just such a situation arise
in a screen story, but she knew what danger might lie in being accused
of insanity. While Warfield was speaking, she had a swift vision of
the evidence they could bring against her; how she had arrived there
delirious after having walked out from Echo,--why, they would call even
that a symptom of insanity! Lone had warned her of what people would
say if she told any one of what she saw in Rock City, perhaps really
believing that she had imagined it all. Lone might even think that she
had some mental twist! Her world was reeli