"Come then—we ain't got any time to lose!
It's Cuter Malone and that damned Johnnie Claw——"
"Johnnie Claw!" cried Brent. "Claw is a thousand miles from here—on the Coppermine!"
"He's right this minute in the Klondike Palace—and your girl will be there too, if you don't shake your legs! They framed this play to get her—and I heard 'em—partly. If I'd known where she was, I'd have gone there first—but I didn't know."
Already Brent was staggering from the room, and Kitty ran close beside him. The cold air revived the man and he ran steadily when he reached the street. "Tell me—" panted Kitty, at his side. "This girl—is—she straight?"
"I'm going to marry her tonight!" cried the man.
"Then hurry—for Christ's sake!" sobbed Kitty, "Oh, hurry! Hurry!"
At a certain street corner Kitty halted suddenly, and Brent ran on. He rushed into Reeves' house like a whirlwind. "Where's Snowdrift?" he cried, as the Reeves' stared wide-eyed at the blood-soaked apparition.
"What has happened——?"
"Where is she?" yelled Brent, his eyes glaring like a mad man's.