“Yes, but I am organizing another band out of new material, men who will serve my purpose even better than the others did.”
“You wish to capture the girl and get a big ransom for her?”
“That is just it, and Sergeant Fallon with her.”
“You wish both?”
“I do, the one for revenge, the other for gold.”
“Well, I believe I can arrange it.”
“You must understand the whole situation, the name of the girl’s lawyer in New York, something of the facts of the case of her inheritance, and just what to do. Now, when she was my captive, I looked over her papers, and I have the name and address of the lawyer, in fact, one of his letters, and I can forge his writing perfectly.
“I will write the letter to her, mail it from Pioneer City, telling her that, writing as the lawyer, I cannot come any farther, as I am suffering with an attack of rheumatism, and that she and her father must come to me, the lawyer, mind you, by return coach. I will then lie in wait on the trail and capture them.”
“A good idea.”
“There is another thing: You must see to it that the girl’s jewels and money are taken along, though she must not know this. Smuggle them on the coach in some way, for you can get possession of them, intimate as you are at the sergeant’s home, and I will share with you.”