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Had he seen them with Bad Bill and Blackwell? Were his suspicions already active? "No, I'm riding for the Map of Texas," Flandrau answered evenly. "Come on, Curly. Let's go feed our faces," Mac called from the stable. Flandrau nodded. "You still with the Hashknife?" he asked Davis. "Still with 'em. I've been raised to assistant foreman." "Bully for you. That's great. All right, Mac. I'm coming.
He added reminiscently: "A good boy, too, Neil was once. We used to punch together on the Hashknife. A straight-up rider, the kind a fellow wants when Old Man Trouble comes knocking at the door. Well, I reckon he's a miscreant now, all right." "They knew YOU at least two of them did." "I've been pirootin' around this country, boy and man, for fifteen years.
Next day Stone rode down to Tin Cup to look over the ground. Maloney telephoned their movements to the Circle C and to the Hashknife. This brought to Saguache Luck Cullison, Curly Flandrau, and Slats Davis. Bucky O'Connor had been called to Douglas on important business and could not lend his help. Curly met Sam in front of Chalkeye's Place.
If Yeager had not met one of the old Lone Star boys, now riding for the Hashknife outfit, and stopped to join him in a long talk over their cigarettes, Steve would have reached Los Robles in time to spoil the man's plan. Or if he had gone direct to Mrs. Seymour instead of fooling away a good hour and a half in his room, he would have cut down his enemy's start by so much golden time.
The first thing that Flandrau did was to walk toward the outskirts of the town where he could think it out by himself. But in this little old planet events do not always occur as a man plans them. Before he reached Arroyo street Curly came plump against his old range-mate Slats Davis. The assistant foreman of the Hashknife nodded as he passed.
Stockmen of all kinds attended, including the biggest men in the stock business, men like old Conrad Kohrs, who was and is the finest type of pioneer in all the Rocky Mountain country; and Granville Stewart, who was afterwards appointed Minister by Cleveland, I think to the Argentine; and "Hashknife" Simpson, a Texan who had brought his cattle, the Hashknife brand, up the trail into our country.
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