Then he suddenly disappeared.
Ferguson smiled coldly.

Again his gaze swept the plains and the ridges about him.

"I don't see nothin' that'd make a man ride like that in this heat," he said.

"Where would he have come from ?" He stared obliquely off at a deep gully almost hidden by an adjoining ridge.
"It's been pretty near an hour since I shot that snake.

I didn't see no man about that time.