"I thought so. If you refuse to do his bidding he hands you over to the authorities?"
"He has threatened to do that."
"Yet you serve him and all the time have a deathtrap in your den."
"It takes a good trap to catch Merle. He is as shrewd as a fox, and that's saying a good deal."
"But you hadn't the courage to try to spring a trap on Merle. You served him on, and it was to warn him that you came to Perth. When Merle went to America——"
"That's right. He went to America!" cried Danny. "I wished the sea would engulf him."
"But it didn't. It brought him back to you and to Belle Demona, the queen of Round Robin Ranch."
"You've seen her, have you?"
"Perhaps."
"She is pretty as was her mother."