"Layin' in the back seat covered with a blanket, jest the same as if she was dead. I heerd 'em say somethin' about chloroformin' her. What does chloroform smell like, Mr. Crow?"
"Jest like any medicine. It has drugs in it. They use it to pull teeth. Well, what then?"
"Well," interposed Roscoe, "Mr. Lamson gave the alarm, an' nearly ever'body in town got out o' bed. They telegraphed to Boggs City an' all around, but it didn't seem to do no good. Them horses went faster'n telegraphs."
"Did you ever see them fellers before?"
"No, sir; but I think I'd know 'em with their masks off."
"Was they masked?"
"Their faces were."
"Oh, my poor little Rosalie!" sobbed old Anderson hopelessly.