“Where’s my hosses, Toothpick?” he asked softly.
Toothpick jumped; the whine had left that voice, and he knew it now.
“Gosh! Jim-twin Allen!” he whispered.
Allen laughed.
“Huh! That’s what Snippets meant by callin’ me stupid,” said Toothpick. “Yuh sure got everybody fooled except her.”
“Maybe so,” Allen said indifferently. “I give the brakeman five bucks to throw me off that train.”
The two rode together out of town toward the lava fields.
“Why for did yuh watch Anderson at Maria’s to-night?” asked Toothpick.
“’Cause I was plumb curious to savvy why Anderson went in that back room and come out with straw on his boots. Is there a stable in that block?”
“Yeh. They’s one behind the Red Queen.”