SARBER. Been an awful hot day. [Exit.
KATE. [In haunted fear.] What have you heard about it?
MRS. VERNON. Why, it don't surprise me, Kate.
LIZBETH. They say Travers is the train-robber—
KATE. Lizbeth!
LIZBETH. Sam Fowler knew him the minute he saw him—, that's why
Travers had to shoot—to git away!
MRS. VERNON. Not Sam?
LIZBETH. No, didn't shoot Sam.
KATE. There has been some mistake—these people have never liked Mr.
Travers.
MRS. VERNON. I knowed he'd bring disgrace on the whole house, Kate. [Getting sun-bonnet.] I'll go in through Mrs. Clark's back way—she'll know—come, Kate, I'm your mother, and a mother never deserts her child. [In stage heroics.