[CHAPTER IV.]
A DANGEROUS MISSION.
"I don't think the boy can make it, McKibben; I don't know whether it's right to ask him to try to make it."
The governor was pacing back and forth in his private office, talking with the sheriff who sat near-by. Something of importance was in the wind, as could plainly be told from the faces of the two men and from the nervous actions of the governor.
"There's nothing that lad can't do when he sets his mind to it," declared McKibben. "If Joe Dangerfield and his gang are kept from reaching Mexico, it's Motor Matt that does it. Take my word for that, governor."
"Do you think you can believe what Juan Morisco told you?" queried the governor.
"I'll take my oath it was the truth."
"If word reaches the Dangerfield gang about what we're doing, King will never be allowed to reach his destination."
"How can word reach the gang? When the boy starts he'll go like a streak of greased lightning. He'll beat the news, even if there was a leak somewhere and the information that he was acting as your courier got started toward the hills."