"Seems you expected him. You knew just where he'd been, an' what he'd been up to. You expected him to ride through One Tree Gulch exactly at that time?"
"No, your lordship," returned Nick; "I knew nothin' for sure. It was no more'n a cute guess on my part, knowin' the man."
Kiddie turned and looked at Undrell very steadily.
"I'm very much afraid that you know more about this business than you're likely to admit," he said. "You were in it yourself to some extent. Perhaps you even went partners with him—eh?"
"What?" Nick showed genuine astonishment at the implied accusation.
"Walk right in," ordered Kiddie, when they were at the front door of the cabin.
Isa Blagg started forward excitedly at Nick's unexpected entrance.
"Got him already!" he exclaimed. "That's smart, Kiddie—real smart."
"Wait, Isa, wait," retorted Kiddie. "I want to ask a few questions."
He reached round to his desk and laid a tobacco pipe on the table in front of Nick Undrell.