Old Peppajee told me Baumberger was up to some devilment when he first came down here.

He heard him talking to Saunders in Pete Hamilton's stable.

And the first night he was here, Peppajee and I saw him down at the stable at midnight, talking to someone.

Peppajee kept on his trail till he got that snake bite, and he warned me a plenty.

But I didn't take much stock in it--or if I did--" He lifted his shoulders expressively.
"So," he went on, after a minute of bitter thinking, "I want you to keep out of this.