This ain't
no short trail. D'you notice the hosses when we was in the barn?"
"Nope."
"Bard took Duffy's grey, and the grey can go like the devil.
Hoss-liftin'? That's another little mark on Bard's score."
CHAPTER XXXII
TO "APPREHEND" A MAN
As if to make up for its silence of the blast when the two reached it
late the night before, Eldara was going full that evening. Kilrain went
straight for Doc Young, to bring him later to join Nash at the house of
Deputy Glendin.
The front of the deputy's house was utterly dark, but Nash, unabashed,
knocked loudly on the door, and went immediately to the rear of the
place. He was in time to see a light wink out at an upper window of the
two-story shack. He slipped back, chuckling, among the trees, and waited
until the back door slammed and a dark figure ran noiselessly down the
steps and out into the night. Then he returned, still chuckling, to the
front of the house, and banged again on the door.
A window above him raised at length and a drawling voice, apparently
overcome with sleep, called down: "What's up in Eldara?"
Nash answered: "Everything's wrong.
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