I heard him accused once of living two lives--and he killed the man.

That was at Stone Bridge." Venters dropped his apparent task and looked up with an eagerness he no longer strove to hide.
"Bess," he said, using her name for the first time, "I suspected Oldring was something besides a rustler.

Tell me, what's his purpose here in the Pass?
I believe much that he has done was to hide his real work here." "You're right.

He's more than a rustler.

In fact, as the men say, his rustling cattle is now only a bluff.