“I don’t suppose it ever occurred to you to question Jim Barrows?”
“To question him? About his personal affairs?”
“They’d bear investigation all right,” Blakeman replied grimly. “But I wasn’t referring to that. I meant about what he was doing yesterday and where he got that big roll of money.”
“I suppose at the rodeo——”
“That’s what he claims,” Blakeman said shortly. “I have a different opinion.”
“Just what are you trying to suggest?” Connie asked. “I know you’ve never liked Jim Barrows.”
“That has nothing to do with it. But there’s no use trying to convince you he’s bad medicine.”
“If you have the slightest evidence against him I’ll certainly listen to it,” Connie replied coldly. “What do you think the man has done?”
The foreman looked quickly about to make certain no one was within hearing distance. Then he said tersely:
“Jim Barrows is a sneak and a crook! He was the masked man who held you up at Eagle Pass!”