Shepard fell back against the wall.
“Benson!” he gasped. “Wow! The feller that played woman and fooled the whole town!”
CHAPTER XIV.
A WORRIED SHERIFF.
The express office and Gopher Gabe’s saloon were robbed that night.
Matt Shepard, sheriff and jailer, brought the news to Buffalo Bill, at the Eagle House.
“I didn’t think they’d strike so soon,” he said. “That is, if it was them done it. But Benson has got nerve enough fer anything.”
Shepard was “sore” over the way Benson had overreached him.
“There has been other robberies, though—while Juniper Joe was in the jail; and of course them couldn’t be charged against him.”