“Of Fire Top’s Toltecs?”
“Yes.”
“How long were you held by them?”
“A number of months,” said Conover, continuing to stare at the window.
“That was in the Cumbres Mountains?”
“You’re right.”
“Then, perhaps, you can give me an idea whether there is any truth at all in this story of Quicksilver John, which the marshal here was telling me about.”
He ran over hastily the points of the marshal’s story of Quicksilver John.
“I think there was somethin’ in it,” said Conover.
“But it wasn’t all true?”