He sat by a table, reading.
"I guess we're off the track, Roper," said Frank, rejoining Clancy.

"I can't see any one but McGurvin through the window, and he's spelling out the news in a paper.

If Porter was there, he and McGurvin would certainly be together." "Not so certainly, Chip." answered Chancy.

"Let's look in the corral for a tired horse.

If we find one, then surely it's Porter's, and Porter has got into the house and gone to bed." Only one horse and a burro were found, and the horse showed no evidence of recent hard riding.