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23 pages of information about Salomy Jane.  “That’s what gets
me,” he said, scratching his grizzled head.  “I’ve been kind o’
thinkin’ o’ him all day, and one of them Chinamen said he saw
him at Sawyer’s Crossing.  He was a kind of friend o’ Pete’s
wife.  That’s why I thought yer might find out ef he’d been
there.”  Salomy Jane grew more self-reproachful at her father’s
self-interest in her “neighborliness.”  “But that ain’t all,”
continued Mr. Clay.  “Thar was tracks over the far pasture that
warn’t mine.  I followed them, and they went round and round the
house two or three times, ez ef they mout hev bin prowlin’, and
then I lost ’em in the woods again.  It’s just like that
sneakin’ hound Larrabee to hev bin lyin’ in wait for me and
afraid to meet a man fair and square in the open.”  “You just
lie low, dad, for a day or two more, and let me do a little
prowlin’,” said the girl, with sy