“I reckon he does.”
“And somebody would have to know it was comin’ that day.”
“Oh, they must ’a’ knowed about it, Hartley.”
“How would Taylor have found it out?”
“That’s hard to say. Chet Le Moyne, the paymaster, is kinda sweet on Miss Taylor, and—”
“And he might have told her, eh?”
“I don’t say he did, Hartley.”
“But for the sake of an argument, it could ’a’ happened. She might ’a’ mentioned the fact that Chet was comin’ in to get the pay-roll, eh? Is that what yuh was thinkin’?”
“Mebbe.” The sheriff did not want to commit himself.
“And this Le Moyne was at the depot to get the pay-roll?”