By Lewis B. Patten
Denver urban within the early days of gold discov ery is the atmosphere for The Golden Magnet, within which homicide an d sabotage have an effect on a mail corporation. path to Vicksburg is determined through the interval of the Civil warfare, while a farm animals force meet s Union troops. '
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There! " Hobart, poking about in the rubble of baggage, suddenly exclaimed: "God! " Cole left the angry woman and went behind the coach. Half buried in baggage and freight lay the driver's body. His head was twisted at an odd angle, and the life was gone from him. A strong odor of whiskey rose from him. Hobart grinned. " Cole said: "He was as sober as you are. That smell is from his bottle. " He shrugged impatiently. " He strode to the high bank and along it until he came to a place where he could climb out.
I'll not go back beaten. " She paused, making a strong and determined effort to suppress her frustration. " Cole supplied, grinning. "It was the word I had in mind. But, perhaps, I was wrong. . . " Cole shook his head. Pure desperation shone for a moment in Norah's eyes, and this was puzzling to Cole. She took a step closer to him, managed a smile, and almost managed a provocative look. " With complete suddenness the humor went out of Cole entirely. His hands reached out, caught her by the waist, and drew her roughly against him.
Cole tore a strip of lace from Norah's exposed petticoat and went to soak it in the narrow stream. Returning, he stared down at her for a moment. Her dress, revealingly low-cut, had fallen away from her shapely ankles. Her hair, not quite black, was in complete disarray. Sprawled out this way, her face smudged and dirty, there was an earthiness about this woman that Cole would not have believed possible. Her dress molded each curve of her body faithfully, showed its sensual, virginal beauty. He felt again a strong attraction.