Anyhow, the evidence is dead agin you, an' I'd arrest my own grand-dad if they give me a warrant agin him." "What evidence is there ?" "Five men swear they saw ye haulin' the bodies about, and lootin' the pockets." Then Keith understood, his heart beating rapidly, his teeth clenched to keep back an outburst of passion.

So that was their game, was it ?--some act of his had awakened the cowardly suspicions of those watching him across the river.

They were afraid that he knew them as white men.

And they had found a way to safely muzzle him.

They must have ridden hard over those sand dunes to have reached Carson City and sworn out this warrant.