"Where is Nada?" he demanded. "Tell me--where is she?"
"Gone, gone, gone," crooned the woman, clutching her hands at her breast again. "Jed has taken her--taken her to Mooney's shack, over near the railroad. Oh, my God!--I tried to keep her, but I couldn't. He dragged her away, and tonight he's sellin' her to Mooney--the devil--the black brute--the tie-cutter--"
She choked, and began rocking herself back and forth, and the moaning came again from her thin lips. Fiercely McKay gripped her by the shoulder.
"Mooney's shack--where?" he cried. "Quick! Tell me!"
"A thousand--a thousand--he's givin' a thousand dollars to git her in the shack--alone," she cried in a dull, sing-song voice. "The road out there leads straight to it. Near the railroad. A mile. Two miles. I tried to keep him from d
