"What!"
"Yep. I had him hid down in Blease's shack, but he beat it away."
"Then it was that poor Indian Garman was after!"
"Not quite. There was a white man, too. A guy that Willy met out in the swamp some place when he beat it that day after Garman had handled him. It was this white man that Garman was after. Willy was with him. Garman's bunch had 'em trapped on an island down in the swamp, but Willy happened to know an Injun way out and they slipped the noose. Willy came crawling in here last night. He's got a tear from a forty-four along his hip and the white man sent him to us to get it doctored up and keep him hidden. I slipped down to Blease's and fixed it up with them to hide him, but he slipped away to join that white man as soon as we had him sewed up.
"Where is the white man?"
"Still out in the swamp. He steered Willy till they saw the tents and then he beat it back."
"Who is he?"
"Don't know; Willy wasn't telling."
"What does Garman want to get him for?"
"Willy 'donno' that either. He 'donno' anything at all about this guy in the swamp. But he did tell a straight story about the sneak they made; and there wasn't a shot fired on either side, so Ramos wasn't shot then. I'll bank on Willy's word for that."