B. M. Bower

Name: The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9
Author: B. M. Bower

The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

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“The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9”, published in 1914, is a work by B. M. Bower. It explores elements such as Spider, Uncle Jake and Vida.

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ CHAPTER IX. Burney had not yet returned from Pocatello—indeed, he had been gone not much longer than twenty-four hours when Vida Williams came riding again to the Sunbeam; riding a heaving-flanked, sweat-roughened pony, and looking harder of lip and eye than before. Spooky had just called to the boys to "Come and get it"—meaning supper—and he stood now in the cabin doorway with his hands on his hips, waiting for them to appear. Then came Vida, galloping straight down the trail from the hills and never deigning to pull up or turn out when she overtook Shelton and Spider and Jim. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ And the toe was pointed up the bank, toward where the dead man lay crumpled upon one side with the bones of his neck crushed and his head twisted horribly upon his shoulder. A long stride down the gully—a long stride for Spider, that is—was another track to match the first.
Spider waited until the others had come up, bent down, and looked upon the tracks. Then, holding Vida by the hand, he picked his way slowly down the gully. Other tracks he found; tracks leading away from the place—leading toward the gloomy scars of the mountain a mile or so away. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ I know he killed Uncle Jake. I didn't see him, but I seen his tracks. Down in the gully, right behind where Uncle Jake was. It's plain as print—and there ain't a man in the country that's got feet the size of his. Is there?"
There was no need of her emphatic question. They all knew there was not.
"I guess we better ride over," suggested Spider, after a minute. "If Burney didn't go to Pocatello we can easy find it out; a man like him ain't going to be overlooked. And if he done what you say he done——" Spider stopped short, and when he continued it was from a new angle of thought. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ It was Spooky, looking true to his nickname, who replaced the grimy canvas.
"Whereabouts are the tracks?" Spider asked the girl, who gave a great sigh of sheer nervous reaction and turned from the still, covered heap.
"Down here. I'll show you." She took his arm and led him around the great, flat outcropping of lava rock upon which her uncle must have been sitting when surprised from behind. "Let me take the torch. We want to keep back ourselves. He came up on these rocks, I guess. There ain't any mark till you get down in the bottom of the gully." ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ Spooky asked her somewhat aggressively. "You want to be kinda careful about saying——"
"Who else but Burney could 'a' done that?" she countered hotly. "Could you grab a man the size of Uncle Jake and twist his neck clear around so you broke it? And him not able to put up a fight even? It ain't easy to do, I should think."
"No," Spider agreed, "it ain't easy to do. At the same time——"
"And who else would want to?" she demanded. "Uncle Jake never had any trouble with anybody around here but Burney. And he's been trying his best to drive us off ever since we came in with our sheep. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ There ain't nothing in startin' out empty. If they's tracks," he said to the girl, "we'll foller 'em up. You better come in and have something to eat."
"I—couldn't," she told him, and looked into the cabin and shuddered. But she sat upon a box near the door and drank a cup of hot coffee which Shelton brought her. "I just can't go in," she apologized to him and Spider, who had lingered outside. "It's like the den of some beast to me. I—I just keep seeing Uncle Jake—and I can just see Burney creeping up the ridge behind him." ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ So, now that the first shock of horror had passed and she had sensed the sympathy of these men who were logically her enemies, but essentially her friends, she was feeling the sorrow of a personal loss. ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ At the same time you never do know all that's in a man." He turned toward Spooky challengingly. "I ain't going to back any low-down play like chokin' a man to death just because he owns a bunch-a sheep," he stated flatly, "whether it's Burney or my own brother." ”

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B. M. Bower, The Spook Hills Mystery — Chapter 9 (1914)

“ Vida explained, turning toward him. "Poppy and I rode over to see him—because some more of our sheep was killed last night, and we wanted to see if Uncle Jake had been bothered and what he thought we better do about it. Poppy wanted to swear out a warrant. And—we found him—like that. He—he wasn't cold yet.
"No, there wasn't any sign of anything. He just laid there like he'd been grabbed up and then throwed down again. It was on a little rocky ridge. I suppose he was setting on the ridge where he could see the sheep, and Burney just crawled up on him from behind. He could easy enough ”

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