...Well, the first time I catch this locoed Romeo sneaking round
here I'll--I'll--"
"Dad, you promised."
"Confound it, Nell, I promised not to pack a gun. That's all.
I'll only shoo this fellow off the place, gently, mind you, gently.
I'll leave the rest for Dick Gale!"
"Oh, Dad!" cried Nell; and she clung to him wistful, frightened,
yet something more.
"Don't mistake me, Nell. You have your own way, generally. You
pull the wool over mother's eyes, and you wind me round your
little finger. But you can't do either with Dick Gale. You're
tender-hearted; you overlook the doings of this hound, Chase.
But when Dick comes back, you just make up your mind to a little
hell in the Chase camp. Oh, he'll find it out. And I sure want to
be round when Dick hands Mr. Radford the same as he handed
Rojas!"
Belding kept a sharp lookout for young Chase, and then, a few days
later, learned that both son and father had gone off upon one of
their frequent trips to Casa Grandes, near where their mines were
situated.
April grew apace, and soon gave way to May. One morning
Belding was called from some garden work by the whirring
of an automobile and a "Holloa!" He went forward to the front yard
and there saw a car he thought resembled one he had seen in Casita.
It contained a familiar-looking driver, but the three figures in
gray coats and veils were strange to him. By the time he had gotten
to the road he decided two were women and the other a man.
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