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Updated: May 24, 2025
An' he swore positive they was re-branded with Jim's mark. Them boys, Restless said, was off to look up the stock." Jane told her story with considerable significance, and, for the moment, her two friends were held silent. Then Pretty Wilkes gathered herself to protest. "But but Jim's McLagan's foreman. He don't need to." "That's just it. Folks wouldn't suspect him easy."
"What ha' ye got to say t " he jerked a thumb in the direction of the bunk house "that feller's yarn?" Jim's answer was unhesitating. He shrugged as he spoke. "Guess there's no definite reason to doubt it. There are the cattle. They're all re-branded with my brand. I've seen 'em. The hand that did it was a prentice hand, though. That's the only thing. The veriest kid could detect the alteration."
"Bill is re-branded, 'Bill Connors, an' then he's done bound down to them books. After four years Bill gradyooates; he's got the limit an' the philanthrofists takes Bill's hobbles off an' throws him loose with the idee that Bill will go back to his tribe folks an' teach 'em to read. Bill comes back, shore, an' is at once the Osage laughin'-stock for wearin' pale-face clothes.
The boss wants to hear where you found those cattle of his re-branded with my own brand." McLagan sat up with a jerk. "Eh?" His face was a study. But chiefly it expressed a belief that he was being laughed at. Jim looked squarely into his half-resentful eyes and nodded. "Those cattle they've just brought in are branded with my brand. You know the brand. You helped me design it.
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