"Of course! Just as soon as I can get more of the Indian police together."
"But they'll hardly be taken alive, will they?"
"Perhaps not."
"That means that blood will be shed on my account," declared Helen. "I'll not have it! I don't want those men captured! What if I refuse to testify against them?"
Lowell looked at her in amazement. Then it came to him overwhelmingly that here was the murder mystery stalking between them once more, like a ghost. He recalled Talpers's broad hint that Helen knew something of the case, and that if Bill Talpers were dragged into the Dollar Sign affair the girl at the Greek Letter Ranch would be dragged in also.
"There is no need of the outside world knowing anything about this," went on Helen. "The Indian police do not report to any one but you, do they?"
"No. Their lips are sealed so far as their official duties are concerned."
"Fire Bear will have nothing to say?"
"He has probably forgotten it by this time in his religious fervor."
"Then I ask you to let these men go."