CHAPTER XIV
THE HALF-CASTE'S WARNING
Jim Dennis heard of the row at the Gum Tree Hotel, and he also heard of the cause.
Ned Glenn, who happened to be there, told him all about it when he pulled up at Wanabeen.
'You'd have laughed, Jim, to see the funk Dalton was in,' he said. 'I never saw such a blooming coward in my life. He's not fit to sew a button on his own shirt. He cowed down before the doc like a whipped kangaroo dog, and darn me if he even so much as swore when Dr Tom asked him out to fight.'
'But what was it all about?' asked Jim.
Then the story came out, with embellishments by Ned Glenn.
'And Abe Dalton said that about my lad?' said Jim.
'Yes, he did; but I wish I had never mentioned it; you look so ferocious.'
'You wait until I come across Dalton. He'll have to answer for it.'
'Leave him alone,' said Ned. 'Treat him as Dr Tom treated him. Let him slide.'