“Who takes your mail out to the ranch from Pinnacle?”
“Anybody who happens to be in town.”
“Then there’s a traitor at the K-10, Kern.”
“You think that one of my men opened the letter?”
“And got help to rob that stage—yes.”
“You’re wrong, Doc. The night that stage was robbed every one of my men were at the ranch. Not a damn one of ’em was away.”
“And the man who was shot that night, Kern. How is he?”
“All right, I reckon. Yuh see, they took him out to Hawkworth’s ranch.”
“To Hawkworth’s ranch! Is that where he is now?”
“Well, I reckon he is, Doc. Doctor Henry couldn’t get a nurse to take care of him, so they shipped him out there. I suppose he’s gettin’ along all right.”