"Medicine, Sleepy Cat—pretty near everywhere."
"I hear you got a job."
"I was offered one."
"Deputy marshal, eh?"
"Farrell Kennedy got me down to Medicine Bend to talk it over."
"What's the matter, couldn't you hold it?"
"I didn't want it."
"You're out of practise on this law-and-order stuff—you've lived up here too long among thieves, Jim. Find out who tore down your wire?"
Laramie replied in even tones but his voice was hard: "I trailed them across the Crazy Woman. It was somebody from Doubleday's ranch."
"They had a story at Stormy Gorman's you'd gone over there to blow Barb's head off."