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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Well, they're at it, I see," remarked Dave, as the little party topped a rise and saw, down in the river valley below them, a number of men erecting fence posts and stringing barbed wire. "Yes, he doesn't lose any time, that's one thing I'll say for Jason Molick," answered the ranch owner. Indeed Molick's forces were very active.
Carson's face was grave as he answered: "Well, I don't know. I'm afraid you can't do business with both of us, Mr. Bellmore." "Why not?" asked the Chicago man, somewhat surprised. "Because Mr. Molick and I to be frank about it don't pull together any too well.
It would be the worst possible procedure to leave loose in the country so desperate a character as one who would deliberately start a prairie fire. He could do untold damage. "I wonder who he is?" mused Dave. Yet in his heart he had an answer ready. "Some of the Molick crowd," he whispered.
Carson and the engineer looked anxious for a moment, feeling that the Centre O boys might put up a fight. But not a gun was drawn. Perhaps the cowboys employed by the Molick outfit were disgusted with the tactics of their employer, when they heard the story of the thirst-dying cattle. No true cowboy would countenance that sort of thing. So they looked on idly while the Bar U men tore away the dam.
Dave did not hesitate at the word of relationship now. Mr. Bellmore did not know the secret. "Oh, I think I understand," the water-man said. "I'm sorry I began negotiations with Molick, but I don't very well see how I can get out of them. I need his water rights." "Perhaps he hasn't as many rights as you think he has," suggested Mr. Carson. "What do you mean?"
"A fine thing indeed." "I've got to do it to keep Dave by me," answered Mr. Carson. "I'll stay don't worry," answered the boy, with a happy grin. And so it was arranged. The Bellmore brothers, as they were now called Dave and Benjamin purchased the Molick ranch and it was added to the Carson holdings under a general partnership agreement.
Carson's land, at this point, extended down to the edge of Rolling River, where the stream made a sharp turn. On the opposite shore were the Molick workmen. And as Dave, the ranchman and the others rode forward, Jason Molick and his son also approached the stream from their side of it. Len glanced up and looked at Dave, but gave no other sign.
So there are two of them?" "Yes, Len and his father," "Do you know them?" "Oh, yes, every one around here knows them." "You don't speak very enthusiastically," said Mr. Bellmore, with a strange look at the boy. "Is it possible that some error has been made on the part of those who gave me letters of introduction? Is not Mr. Molick influential in these parts?"
Carson glanced keenly at the lad, and something he saw in his face caused the ranch owner to start. "Was there any trouble?" he asked. It was the same question Pocus Pete had propounded. "Well, Len Molick and Whitey Wasson had some of our cattle in with theirs." "They did?" "Yes, but Pete and I easily cut 'em out. But Oh, Dad!" The words burst from Dave's lips before he thought.
Carson fight the Molick crowd. After a number of suits had been started Molick brought an action against the engineer for breach of contract. "He claims I promised to go into the water matter with him, and then backed out," said Mr. Bellmore. "Well, I did nothing of the sort. I might have gone in with him, if you had not warned me, though Mr. Carson."
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