Waters looked toward the ranch and the gaze of Stareyes followed him.
"Wait! I'll go back and spy out the land," said the girl.
"You? Why, they'll see you and then your career will end."
"When they catch Stareyes there will be a sting in her hand," she hissed. "Merle is for Riggs, Belle Demona for me!"
She started off, and in a second Waters lost sight of her.
He heard her steps in the path after she had vanished, and then he looked toward the ranch house in vain to hear something of Old Broadbrim.
Let us follow the Australian girl.
She went back to the house like a bat in the night.
When near the half-burned structure she stopped and listened.
The fire had been totally extinguished and the voices of the guard came from the little house nearby which had escaped destruction.