“Not one of my boys,” he said. “I wonder who he can be? He must have known of this place, for it’s almost impossible to discover it from the plains.”
The horseman rode up to within a dozen yards of the house.
Then he pulled rein, and placing his hand to his mouth, shouted:
“Halloo!”
No answer was returned to him.
The horseman waited for a moment, and then he shouted again:
“Halloo, Captain Prime.”
“The devil,” quoth Prime. “He knows me, or my name, whoever he is. I guess I’ll order him in.”
He touched a bell, and in a moment the tall stableman appeared in the room.
“Jack,” said the captain, “take a good look at that fellow.”