"Plenty of it." Laramie spoke loudly for fear Simeral might protest. Then he called promptly to the kitchen: "Ben, get up some flour for Abe."
Ben quavered a protest.
"Get it up now before you forget it," insisted Laramie.
"Is Tom Stone still foreman over at Doubleday's?"
"I guess he is," returned Laramie.
"What does Doubleday aim to do with Stone?" asked Hawk, cynically, "steal his own cattle from himself?"
"A cattleman nowadays might as well steal his own cattle as to wait for somebody else to steal 'em." Laramie spoke with some annoyance. "There's going to be trouble for these Falling Wall rustlers."
"Meaning me?" asked Hawk, contemptuously.
"I never mean you without saying you, Abe—you ought to know that by this time. But this running off steers is getting too raw. From the undertalk in Sleepy Cat there's going to be something done."
"Who by?"