She would ask to speak with the proprietor alone, and upon being confronted with her, he usually recalled a trip made ten or twelve years before in order to buy a herd of cattle.
"You remember, Patron, that you passed the night on my ranch because the river had risen ?" The Patron did not remember anything about it.

But a vague instinct warned him that the woman was probably telling the truth.

"Well, what of it ?" "Patron, here he is.

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