“Not guilty, Hawkworth.”
“Then why are you interested?’
“Curiosity, I reckon. And you’ve got to figure that I was in that holdup, and that I got hit last night. Ain’t that enough to make me interested?”
“Yes, I suppose so.”
“All right. Will yuh do me a big favor, Hawkworth?”
“I don’t know.”
“Have ’em bring that stranger out here to the ranch. It’ll only be a matter of two weeks at the most.”
Big Medicine frowned heavily.
“Just why do you want him here, Hartley?”
“I just want to play my hunch. Do you know what a hunch is?”