He depended on his fighting power to keep that
money safe, but he forgot that while he'd been making a business of
rustling doggies and watching cattle markets, other men had been
making a business of shooting fast and straight.
"Among others there was the silent man who'd watched and waited for so
long. But this silent man hove alongside while our rich friend was
bound home in a buckboard.
"'Good evening!' he called.
"The rich chap turned and heard; it all seemed all right, but he'd
done a good deal of shady business in his day, and that made him
suspicious of the silent man now. So he reached for his gun and got it
out just in time to be shot cleanly through the hand.
"The silent man tied up that hand and sympathized with the rich chap;
then he took that satchel and divided the paper money into two
bundles. One was twice the size of the other, and the silent man took
the smaller one. There was only twelve thousand dollars in it. Also,
he took the ruby brooch for a friend--and as a sort of keepsake, you
know.
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