“It was meant for me.”
“Huh! Robbers?[{22}]”
“Perhaps. But they let me alone.”
“Mebbe they knowed you was handy with a gun?”
“I shouldn’t wonder. Anyhow, I had business out this way, so I came along. I took the trail to save time.”
“So! Business out here, you say.”
“Yes. I’m looking for Hank Low’s place. I presume it’s not much farther, is it?”
“Hank Low’s! No, it ain’t much farther—’bout two gunshots.”
There was surprise and suspicion in the man’s tone.
“This trail will bring me there, I suppose?” said Nick.