Thet was how I got the hunch the crowd was all sheepmen or their friends.
The day before I'd heerd a lot of talk about this young Isbel, an' what he'd come to Grass Valley fer, an' what a bad hombre he was.

An' when I seen him I was bound to admit he looked his reputation.
"Wal, pretty soon in come two more fellars, an' I knowed both of them.
You know them, too, I'm sorry to say.

Fer I'm comin' to facts now thet will shake you.

The first fellar was your father's Mexican foreman, Lorenzo, and the other was Simm Bruce.

I reckon Bruce wasn't drunk, but he'd sure been lookin' on red licker.