"Because I ordered him to ride with me," Sue told him.
"Then I reckon he's excused," Bob smiled.
Here Jeb broke in and told them what had happened during the night and what their plans were.
"I knew it," Sue declared as soon as he had finished. "I felt it in my bones that he was a bad one the minute I laid eyes on him."
"Your bones must be pretty sensitive," her father laughed.
"Well, you'll have to admit that they're usually right," she retorted.
"As if I'd dare to do anything else."
"You better hadn't."
Los Varney had been assigned to neither of the shifts but had been given work about the corral and, soon after breakfast was over, Bob wandered out that way. His idea was to talk with him and try and find out if he was in any way suspicious because of what had happened the night before. He found him mending the fence on the farther side.
"How come you ain't riding herd?" Los greeted him.