I found that out yesterday," he continued, soberly, as Sanderson looked quickly at him.

"I had some men down to Tombstone way, lookin' him up.
"When old Bransford showed me the letter that you took away from me, I knew Will Bransford was in Tombstone; an' when Mary sent that thousand to him I set a friend of mine--Gary Miller--onto him.

Gary an' two of his friends salivated young Bransford, but he turned up, later, minus the money, in Tombstone.

Another friend of mine sent me word--an' a description of him.

Barney Owen is Bransford.
"Just what happened to Gary Miller an' his two friends has bothered me a heap," went on Dale.
"They was to come this way, to help me in this deal.