"You're a marked man already." "What started such rumor ?" "Shore you cain't prove it by me.

But it's not taken as rumor.

It's got to the sheepmen as hard as bullets." "Ahuh! That accunts for Colter's seemin' a little sore under the collar.

Well, he said they were goin' to run sheep over Grass Valley, an' for me to take that hunch to my dad." Blaisdell had his chair tilted back and his heavy boots against a post of the porch.

Down he thumped.