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Updated: May 10, 2025
While he had been talking to Betty in the office tonight Telza had stolen the diagram. There was more than triumph in Calumet's eyes as he turned his pony there was joy and savage exultation. The idol was his; he would get the money, too. After that he would drive Betty and all of them But would he? A curious indecision mingled with his other emotions at this thought. His face grew serious.
Neal had said that they had seen Calumet when he had been racing up and down the river trail; they had suspected he had been after Sharp or Telza, and had followed him. No doubt they were afflicted with a great curiosity. They were playing for time in order to discover his errand. "I reckon we'll get along without mushin'," suggested Calumet. "What terms are you talkin' about?"
Taggart's got evidence that your dad planted the idol around here somewheres seems to know that your dad drawed a diagram of the place an' left it with Betty. He set Telza to huntin' for it. Telza got it tonight it was hid somewhere. I was with him waitin' for him. If he got the diagram I was to knife him and take it away from him.
I reckon I'm goin' somewhere now, an' so I can say what I like. Taggart ain't no friend of mine neither of them. They've played me dirt more than once. My name's Al Sharp. You know that Tom Taggart was as deep in that idol business as your dad was. He told me. But he's got Telza soft-soaped into thinkin' that Betty Clayton's folks snaked it from Telza's people.
But there's some things to be done before we pull our freight. You think you've been damned slick about the idol you an' that mule-kickin' shorthorn, Calumet Marston! But we've fooled you," he continued with a short, ugly laugh; "fooled you clean! Mebbe you know this, an' mebbe you don't. But I'm tellin' you. We set Telza, the Toltec, an' Sharp to get the diagram of the place where the idol is.
It was someone who knew where the idol was, too he'd been diggin' for it." "I reckon you've got me," said Toban. "Sharp an' Telza an' you an' Betty is the only one's that ever saw the diagram. I saw you pick it up from where Telza dropped it when I was maulin' him. I know you didn't do any diggin' for the idol; I know Betty wouldn't; an' Sharp's dead, an' Telza's in jail "
Calumet bent over him again; the name sounded foreign. "Talk sense," he said shortly; "who's Telza?" "A Toltec Indian," said the man. "He's been hangin' around here for a month. Around the Arrow, too. Mebbe two months. Nobody knows. He's like a shadow. Now you see him an' now you don't," he added with a grim attempt at a joke. "Taggart's had me trailin' him, lookin' for a diagram he's got."
Taggart an' his dad is somewhere around here I was to meet them down the river a piece. Telza double-crossed me; tried to sneak over here an' hunt the idol himself. I found him he had the diagram. I tried to get it from him he stuck his toad-sticker in me, . . . the little copper-skinned devil. He " He hesitated and choked, raising himself as though to get a long breath.
"An' after what you've done you've got the nerve to ask me to divvy with you." The elder Taggart was the first to recover his composure. "Telza?" he said. "Why, I reckon you've got me; there ain't no one of that name " But Calumet was close to him, his eyes blazing. "Shut your dirty mouth, or I'll tear you apart!" he threatened. "You're a liar, an' you know it.
Some dense undergrowth rose on his right, black shadows surrounding it, and he walked along its edge, his forty-five in hand, trying to peer into it. He saw nothing, heard nothing. Then, catching another groan from the man, he returned to him. The man's eyes were open; they gleamed brightly and wildly. "Got me," he said as he saw Calumet. "Who got you?" repeated Calumet. "Telza." "Telza?"
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