Doctor Burton started forward, his eyes were blazing and his voice rang:
“Shut up—if you open your foul mouth again, I’ll drag you from that horse and choke the dirty life out of you.”
The Lizard, amazed at the usually gentle-mannered Saint Jimmy, straightened himself in the saddle and caught up the reins.
“Get out!” continued the man on the ground. “Go find some filthy-minded scandalmonger like yourself to listen to your vile rot. I’ve had enough.”
The Lizard snarled down at him:
“If you warn’t a poor lunger, I’d——“
But as Saint Jimmy reached for him, he touched his horse with the spur, and the animal leaped away.
Twenty minutes later, Doctor Burton was on his way to the cabin in the cañon.
Marta was at home, sitting on the porch with her sewing, when her teacher rode down into the Cañon of Gold. She saw him as he turned aside toward the neighboring cabin, and was on the ground in time to introduce the two men.