“Big Medicine Hawkworth’s wife and daughter.”
“Well, what about ’em?” snapped Baldy.
“You ought to know, Kern. You helped search the Tumbling H ranch-house and kidnap the women.”
“That’s a damn lie!”
“Oh, all right.”
Hashknife shut his lips tightly.
“Let’s get this straight,” said Jack Meline, crowding in closer. “You say that Mrs. Hawkworth and Wanna have been taken away, Hartley?”
“Who done it?” asked Baldy. “By God, we didn’t!”
Hashknife knew that they were telling the truth.
In fact, he doubted that they had from the first, but wanted to be sure.