He also wants Peggy Nyland.
"Dale is a beast! You heard Peggy tell how he has hounded her.

It is true; she has told me about it more than once.

Dale hasn't told, of course; but it is my opinion that Dale put the Double A cattle into Ben's corral so that he could hang Ben.

With Ben out of the way he could take the Nyland property--and Peggy, too." "Why did he use Double A cattle ?" Mary paled.

"Don't you see the hideous humor of that?
He knows Peggy Nyland and I are friends.