Reckon it took me all of half a second--while them two warriors was giving me the evil eye.

I'll tell you how it was." He related the story of the shooting match and the lost bet.

"And to this unprovoked design against an inoffensive stranger I fitted the only possible meaning and shape that would make a lick of sense, dovetailin' in with the real honest-to-goodness facts I already knew." "But don't you see, old thing, you're still up in the air?
Your theory doesn't touch ground anywhere." "Stanley--my poor deluded boy!--when I got to the railroad I wired that assayer right off.

Our samples never reached El Paso.

So I wrote out my fake location and filed it.