"Sure. I wasn't going back to Phœnix without you."
"You slept on the rocks?"
"Didn't you sleep in the gap?"
"What have you had to eat?"
"The stuff we took away from Gregory's place."
"There wasn't half a square meal in all of it!"
"I started for the Tanks, an hour ago, to get something. Saw the red roadster in front of the tienda and changed my mind."
Matt fished his last piece of jerked beef out of his pocket and put it in Clip's hand.
"Now, regale yourself," he laughed.
Clip began on the meat, and while he was eating the pounding of a motor reached their ears.