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The Strange Case of Cavendish

CHAPTER XXII: THE ROCK IN THE STREAM
19/23

Then, why should Enright an' his crowd come yere, unless that was a fact?
They must have come for something; that lawyer ain't yere on no minin' deal; an' no more has Beaton been layin' round town fer a month doin' nuthin' but drinkin' whisky.

The whole blame outfit is right here in Haskell, and they wouldn't be if this wasn't headquarters.

That's good common sense, ain't it ?" He stopped suddenly, patting his hand on the rock, and then lifting his head to scan the line of shore.

"They're there all right, Jim," he announced.
"I just got a glimpse o' two back in the brush yonder.

What made yer ask me 'bout Pasqual Mendez this mornin'?
You don't hook the Mexican up with this affair, do yer ?" "Sadie told me she heard Enright speak of him at breakfast; that was all she heard, just the name." "Sadie?
Oh, the red-headed waitress at Timmons's, you mean?
Big Tim's girl ?" "Yes; she was the one who saw Miss Donovan forced into the wagon, and driven off." "And they took the old Shoshone trail; out past Hennessey's ranch ?" "So she described it.


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