June shook her head firmly.
“I’m not your judge, Jack Silver. But you’re going to guide me to the Two Bar X ranch, you know. You’ll walk ahead with the rope around your neck and I’ll ride your horse.”
Jack Silver laughed softly as he put the loop around his neck.
“So that’s your game, eh?” he said amusedly. “You’ve got a lot of nerve for a woman. I never knew that pretty women had nerve. That’s how yuh won old man Reber, eh? Pretty girl with plenty nerve. Oh, he’s worth winnin’. He’s got nobody to leave his money to—no relatives. And he’s got plenty money. I heard he had made you a foreman.”
Silver threw back his head and laughed.
June had a notion to yank the loop tight and choke off that laugh.
“You’ll laugh different when I get you to the Two Bar X,” she promised him.
He sobered suddenly.
“That’s right,” he said quickly. “They don’t like me. But what I’d like to know is what you were doing in this cabin all tied up like that?”
“How did you know I was in that cabin?” she retorted.