It was the face of this professor of yours." "Great Scott!" gulped Clancy, staring.
"At McGurvin's ?" demanded Merry, no less excited.
"Yes, at McGurvin's.

I asked Mac what the professor was doing in his house, and he answered that what I didn't know wouldn't bother me.

It was none of my put-in, and so I let it go at that, There's something else to it, too.

Tell what you found out in Gold Hill, Aaron, two days ago." Merry and Clancy turned their eyes on Lloyd.
"I was there fer the ranch mail," began Lloyd, "an' Nick Porter was crookin' his elbow a-plenty.

And talking a heap, too.