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"The exact place of the meeting is not material," he said frowningly. But Hite's mercurial interest in the drawing had revived anew. "Thar she be," he exclaimed, so suddenly that the jury started with a common impulse, "the ole witch-face," he pointed at the sketch in the coroner's hand, "a mite ter the east an' a leetle south in the pictur', ez nat'ral ez life!"
It may be that Peters had absorbed some of the craft of argument by mere propinquity to Persimmon Sneed, or that Con Hite's conscience was unduly tender, for he long entertained a moral doubt touching his course in this transaction, whether he had a right to pay the ransom money which Nick Peters had extorted from Persimmon Sneed's wife to Persimmon Sneed himself, thereby defrauding Nick Peters of the fruit of his labor.
Hite's ranch, and Lee's Ferry, 140 miles below Hite, had mail service. We had left instructions at the post-office to forward our mail to one or the other of these points. These were also the only places on our 425-mile run to Bright Angel Trail where we could expect to see any people, so we were informed.
Dudley, handing his nephew another document, "and from this paper you will find that this son, your James Anson Drane, was employed after the death of the father to act as Hite's factor. So your first step, when you return, will, of course, be to communicate with this young Drane." Abner returned to Kentucky early in October.
It came to its destination in this wise. Con Hite's distilling enterprise was on so small a scale that one might have imagined it to be altogether outside the purview of the law, which, it is said, does not take note de minimis.
He telephoned to his paper. Hite's voice had a tremor that showed he came as near laughing as he ever got. "Great little guy that professor of yours, Jimmy. My, oh my, what a newspaper man he would have made. Is he always that way, Jimmy?" "What did he do, chief?" "What did he do? For one thing he came as near getting me fired from this job as I ever got. He snarled and growled at me.
"Ye oughter remember these men air crim'nal offenders agin the law, Mr. Sneed," he said. "Mebbe so," assented Persimmon Sneed, "mebbe so;" but the situation of Con Hite's still was the only locality which he had visited of which he was sure, and in gratitude to his rescuer he held his peace.
I can't go out because I may miss a call. "Step on it! Scurry around and see what it is. And keep in touch. Call up every few minutes." Jimmy hung up the receiver and stood at the instrument in thought, holding the receiver in its hook as though he would get inspiration from the lifeless instrument. He had learned to have a profound respect for Hite's tips.
The "revenuers," he argued, too, never rode alone, as did this man, and spies and informers were generally of the vicinage. The stranger was specially well mounted, and as his puzzled cogitation over the significant silence that had supervened between them became so marked as to strike Hite's attention, the mountaineer sought to nullify it by an allusion to the horse.
"S'long, Jimmy, remember we're runnin' a daily paper and not a quarterly." This was Hite's usual formula. Jimmy now decided to charter a swift motor boat. Professor Brierly's camp and Justice Higginbotham's camp were both a considerable distance off the main road.
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