“Good!”
“My friend, Texas Jack, will be here this afternoon, and will you give him a couple of men whom you feel that you can really trust as guides?”
“I can give him a dozen men, Señor Cody, but candidly, and with shame I say it, I know of but one man on my ranch whom I would fully trust. The fact is, I do not know in whom to place confidence. They may be all faithful, and yet one may not be so, and that one might be the person I select for you.”
“That is very true.”
“But one man I am sure of, Palma, my cowboy chief, and he will go with you where you please.”
“Thanks, señor, he will do, and if you will allow him to go with Texas Jack I will feel obliged.”
“But you, señor?”
“I am going to make a visit, señor, to the hacienda of the fair recluse.”
“Oh, señor!”