If he can help us, pay him.

But be careful what you say.

Remember that he was watching you at the hotel in Montreal, and I've a suspicion that he was standing in the shadow near the stairs when Benson talked last night." Borrowing a saddle, Blake rode over to Clarke's homestead, which had a well-kept, prosperous look.

He found its owner in a small room furnished as an office.

Files of papers and a large map of the Western Provinces hung on one wall; and Clarke was seated at a handsome American desk.