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"Oh, with Healy"

Jiarded the sportive youth more attentively, and presently dropped into a vacant seat beside hi steadily He did not play either a careful or a brilliant ga his own, listened to the angry bursts and the boastings of the man next him, and drew his own conclusions as to his character After a couple of hours of play the Malpaisup

He slept till late, ate breakfast leisurely, and after an hour of looking over the paper and gossiping with the hotel clerk about the holdup he called casually upon the deputy sheriff Only one thing of ileaned fros had been picked up sevenafter the holdup

This put a cri seen Keller in the Pass on the animal Furthermore, it opened a new field for surmise Brill Healy said that he had seen the horse with a wound in its flank No did he knoounded, since Slim had not mentioned this when he had telephoned? It followed that if he had not seen the broncho--and that he had seen it was a sheer physical impossibility--he could know of the wound only because he was already in close touch hat had happened at Noches

But how could he be aware of as happening fifty et around His alibi was just as good as that of the horse Both of theround between two given points in a given time There was one other possible explanation--that Healy had been in telephonic communication with Noches before he met Phyllis But this seemed to Ji trail all afternoon and had seen nobody until he er called on the cashier, Benson, later in the day, and had a talk with him and with the president, Johnson Both of these were now back at their posts, though the latter was not atte much work as yet Jim talked also with many others Some of them had theories, but none of the cattleman put up at the same hotel as Spiker and struck up a sort of inti the day, and at night they were always to be seen side by side at the poker table