“You’re just tellin’ that to scare me away from this place.”
“I’m telling you the truth.”
“You never saw anything strange yourself?” asked the scout.
“Never.”
“And you have formed no theory to account for it?”
“I haven’t been able to, Cody.”
Pizen Kate walked into the room and began to look it over.
“I’ve had a good deal of dealings with men,” she said, as she came out, “and I know that you two fellers aire lyin’. But if you think you kin scare Pizen Kate that easy, then you don’t know her. I come here huntin’ fer my lawful husband, and I’m goin’ to stay till I find him.”
Buffalo Bill made now another inspection of the mysterious room, and this time he was accompanied in his examination of it by Latimer.
Pizen Kate stood in the door, keenly watching them, and now and then sarcastically commenting.