The other fidgeted, then looked up at Hilton.
"I don't see why you've got such an interest in this for, anyhow. Course, it's none of my business, but I don't see why you should always egg me on about Beck."
"I am concerned to see the THO prosper," said Hilton mockingly. "That is why I bought fence; that is why I want your friend, the HC foreman, out of the way."
He rose, placed the bottle on the table and stepped out of the house. They heard him walk across the dooryard and into the stable.
"You s'pose he's goin' to meet her again tonight?" Webb growled.
"Likely.... It's likely."
"I wish th' hell he'd clear out. I don't see what you wanted to take him in for!"
Hepburn chuckled.
"How could you keep him out? The girl, she knows everything, an' what she knows he knows. His money's valuable to us an' besides ... it'll keep her quiet if we ever do get out on a limb."
Webb looked up in query.