"I always told you fellers--" "Does anybody know where Mary V went ?" Sudden's voice brought them all facing him.

They looked at him uncomprehendingly for a minute, then uncertainly at one another.
"Why--she was going to take a picture of a cactus.

I dunno where she went after that." This was Bud, a shade of uneasiness creeping into his face.
"Which way did she go?
Toward home ?" "She started that way--back toward Snake Ridge--" "I seen her riding east," Curley broke in.

"Jake shore was pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down too.

I thought at first he was running off with her, but he wasn't.