21/40 There's gold in the canyons!" "Ah!" "Yes, there's gold, not in great quantities, but gold enough for him and his men. They wash for gold week in and week out. Then they drive a few cattle and go into the villages to drink and shoot and kill--to bluff the riders." "Drive a few cattle! But, Bess, the Withersteen herd, the red herd--twenty-five hundred head! That's not a few. And I tracked them into a valley near here." "Oldring never stole the red herd. |