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Updated: June 3, 2025
It was Blaze Jones, one of the few county residents granted access to Las Palmas, who first acquainted himself with the outcome of Alaire's experiment, and it was he who brought news of it to some visiting stock-buyers at Brownsville. Blaze was addicted to rhetorical extravagance. His voice was loud; his fancy ran a splendid course.
"Stock-buyers!" whispered the detective, thrusting me further back. "Go slow. In the interests of justice, I want to see just what they're going to do." The newcomers seated themselves not far from the other side of the pillar, and I waited feverishly, catching snatches of somewhat vivid general chatter, until one of the party said more loudly: "Now let us come down to business.
None of them, however, appeared on any hotel register, until we called at a certain well-known hostelry, where our companion was recognized by the clerk. "Yes, I guess we've got the men you want," he said, with unusual civility for a Western hotel clerk. "Just stood some big stock-buyers a high-class breakfast, and you'll find them upstairs. Say, if you want assistance send right down for me."
A few days after Marcia's arrival there came to the ranch a letter which was addressed: Pollock Hampton, Esq., General Manager, Blue Lake Ranch. It was from Doan, Rockwell & Haight, big stock-buyers of Sacramento, submitting an unsolicited order for a surprisingly large shipment of cattle and horses.
If you travel the stock-road between here and Marfa and Valentine you'll see dead cattle all along the line and stray cattle out in the scrub. The herds have been driven fast and far, and stragglers are not rounded up." "Wholesale business, eh?" remarked Duane. "Who are these er big stock-buyers?" Colonel Webb seemed a little startled at the abrupt query.
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