“What is it, Dannie?”
“Are you Whispering Smith?”
“Yes, Dannie. Shut your eyes.”
At three o’clock, when Kennedy lighted a candle and looked in, Smith was sitting with his back against the wall. The boy lay on his arm. Both were fast asleep. On the bed the dead man lay with a handkerchief over his face.
CHAPTER XXIX
WILLIAMS CACHE
Ed Banks had been recalled before daybreak from the middle pass. Two of the men wanted were now known to have crossed the creek, which meant they must work out of the country through Williams Cache.