In the meanwhile your part's quite easy.

No trooper could ride you down unless you wanted him to, and you'll ride straight on to Montana--I've a route marked out for you.

You'll stop at the places I tell you, and the testimony of anybody who saw you on the black would be quite enough to clear me if Stimson's men are too eleven for the boys." Winston sat still a moment, and it was not avarice which prompted him when he said, "Considering the risk one hundred dollars is very little." "Of course," said Courthorne.

"Still, it isn't worth any more to me, and there will be your expenses.

If it doesn't suit you, I will do the thing myself and find the boys another guide." He spoke indifferently, but Winston was not a fool, and knew that he was lying.
"Turn your face to the light," he said sharply.
A little ominous glint became visible in Courthorne's eyes, and there was just a trace of darker color in his forehead, but Winston saw it and was not astonished.