"Where's Charleton, Peter?"
"He went out after a stray stallion he thinks has wandered up on Lost
Chief."
Douglas gave Peter a startled glance. "Jimmy Day just said he'd gone into Mountain City."
Peter shrugged his shoulders. "All I know is what Charleton told me last
Monday." He slid a new record into the machine.
"Wait a moment!" Douglas put his hand on the starting-lever. "Isn't that the telephone ringing downstairs?"
Peter listened; then nodded.
"I'll answer it!" exclaimed Douglas.
He dashed downstairs and jerked the receiver off the hook. "I want Doug!
I gotta depone to Doug," came a breathless old voice over the wire.
"Yes, Johnny, here I am! Where are you?"
"At Mary's. They got the preacher, Doug!"