"You see," he explained, "I don't know just where I'm at.

There's been a rustler workin' on the herd, an' I ain't been able to get close enough to find out who it is.

But rustlin' has got to be stopped.

I've sent over to Raton to get a man named Ned Ferguson, who's been workin' for Sid Tucker, of the Lazy J.

Tucker wrote me quite a while back, tellin' me that this man was plum slick at nosin' out rustlers.