“In what sense, then?” he asked.

“I have nothing against you,” she told him.

“Against some of my friends, eh?”

“Not unless you call Juniper Joe and Tim Benson your friends,” she declared. “I don’t need to explain about that matter, as you understand it.”

“You’ve got it in fer them because you think they killed Ward, and you was sweet on Ward! That’s it, eh?”

She clinched her hands tightly together in her lap.

“Something like that,” she admitted.

“Well, what is it you’re goin’ to do?” he asked.

“If I can find out where they are I’m going to notify the sheriff.”

“And Buffalo Bill?”