For Menocal, or any one else, must have no suspicion of his real ditch line until an application for construction of the project had been filed in the state engineer's office.
Signs that the banker had taken measures to keep him under surveillance were not wanting.
"Dave," he said, "have you noticed a sheepherder with a bunch of sheep hanging around here, when he should be up in the mountains where the range is good ?" "Yes, I've seen him.

And he hasn't a full band, either." "Looks as if he's grazing down here on the mesa so as to watch us," Bryant mused.

"When we went north, he and his sheep drifted in that direction; when we were over on the mountain side, they followed there.

What shall we do about it ?" "I don't see that we can do anything except to watch him, too, and fool him." The lad took thought for a moment, and then proceeded, "Somebody was around here yesterday while we were away, for I saw a brown paper cigarette stub on the ground in front of the door this morning.

You use white papers; it's mostly Mexicans who have those straw papers." "Then we had better put an extra nail or two in the windows as a precaution," Lee stated, "before we go down to Sarita Creek.