17/20 Of course, you must be careful in what you say. He's English, and besides he must be immensely wealthy. The Holroyd house is in with him in that mine, so you may imagine--" He interrupted himself as, from before one of the little fires burning outside the low wall of the corral, arose the figure of a man wrapped in a poncho up to the neck. The saddle which he had been using for a pillow made a dark patch on the ground against the red glow of embers. "I've ascertained that he, too, wants the railway." The man who, perhaps disturbed by the proximity of the voices, had arisen from the ground, struck a match to light a cigarette. |