Several days had passed since the fight at Helen Mowbray's house, and Ted Strong and the broncho boys were again at the Bubbly Well Ranch.
The remains of Helen Mowbray had been laid to rest near the major's ranch house in a little lot surrounded by a low fence, and her treasure was safely stored away in the safe in the major's bedroom.
The period of their visit to the ranch house was past, but still they stayed to help the major to get word of his brother Frederic Caruthers, alias Fancy Farnsworth, alleged to be the worst man in Arizona.
Where he might be none knew, of course, but Ted was of the opinion that he was still somewhere in Arizona, and not far away, either.
He could not have told why he believed so, but he had one of his "hunches" to that effect, and believed it as surely as if he knew it for a fact.
Ted had seen his hunches turn out true so often that he did not attempt now to distrust them.
Somehow, he felt that everything was to come out all right some day, and that he would find Farnsworth, or Frederic Caruthers, to be more exact, and Ted always reproached himself when he thought of the young fellow by his false name.
One morning Ted awoke before the dawn, sitting upright in bed, listening for a sound, but heard nothing unusual.
This was one of Ted's habits—to be aroused by some unknown sense in the night when danger threatened.
Hearing nothing, he got out of bed, and sat on its edge and listened again.