"Very well," he whispers, "sit down. To-day, fearing to alarm you, I did not tell you all I knew in regard to your father; but it is necessary now that you understand everything about Kruger, the Mormon bishop."
"Why, he's two hundred miles away."
"In a few minutes he will be here."
"Oh, mercy!" The girl leans against her lover, and he can feel her heart throb and pulse with apprehension. His arm goes round her waist, and seems to give her confidence, as he tells her the whole story of her father's blood atonement, from which he saved him. And she gasps: "You are not deceiving me—my father is not dead?"
"He's as safe as you are!"
"Thank God!"
"Perhaps safer!" Then he tells her of the revelation Buck Powers has made him this night.
"Ah!" Erma cries; "Kruger is coming to force me to give up that Utah Central stock."
"For more!"
"What more?"