"I didn't refuse. I was embarrassed. Of course, you can have one or twenty, Red."
Into her words and the expression on her face, Rose put all her persuasiveness.
Breathlessly the others watched the effect upon the outlaw of her apparent surrender.
A moment Red scanned her face searchingly.
"Go ahead, Pedro," he growled.
And, turning his back, he took another pull at his flask.
CHAPTER VIII.
RED ROGERS SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE FORT.
In tense silence, Rose watched the bandit approach to carry out his master's orders.