I kept but did not count.

There were other small articles, of no value.

"Is that all the loot you secured during the infamous scene on Piegan
Pass?" Tish demanded, "You need not hide anything from us. We know the
facts, and the whole story will soon be public."

"That's all, lady," whined one of the men. "Except a few boxes of lunch,
and that's gone. Lady, lemme take my hands down. I've got a stiff
shoulder, and I--"

"Keep them up," Tish snapped. "Aggie, see that they keep them up."

Until that time we had been too occupied to observe the girl, who merely
stood and watched in a disdainful sort of way. But now Tish turned and
eyed her sternly.

"Search her, Lizzie," she commanded.

"Search me!" the girl exclaimed indignantly. "Certainly not!"

"Lizzie," said Tish in her sternest manner, "go over that girl. Look in
her riding-boots. I haven't come across Mrs. Ostermaier's earrings yet."

At that the girl changed color and backed off.

"It's an outrage," she said. "Surely I have suffered enough."

"Not as much," Tish observed, "as you are going to suffer. Go over her,
Lizzie."

While I searched her, Tish was lecturing her.

"You come from a good home, I understand," she said, "and you ought
to know better. Not content with breaking an honest heart, you join a
moving-picture outfit and frighten a prominent divine--for Mr. Ostermaier
is well known--into what may be an illness. You cannot deny," she
accused her, "that it was you who coaxed them to the pass. At least you
needn't. We heard you."

"How was I to know--" the girl began sullenly.

But at that moment I found Mrs. Ostermaier' chamois bag thrust into her
riding-boot, and she suddenly went pale.

Tish held it up before her accusingly. "I dare say you will not deny
this," she exclaimed, and took Mrs. Ostermaier's earrings out of it.

The men muttered, but Aggie was equal to the occasion. "Silence!" she
said, and pointed the revolver at each in turn.

The girl started to speak. Then she shrugged her shoulders. "I could
explain," she said, "but I won't. If you think I stole those hideous
earrings you're welcome to."

"Of course not," said Tish sarcastically. "No doubt she gave them to
you--although I never knew her to give anything away before."

The girl stood still, thinking. Suddenly she said "There's another one,
you know. Another man."

"We have him. He will give no further trouble," Tish observed grimly. "I
think we have you all, except