Carbon County news., 1937-12-24
q Alan LIE May
WNU Service

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why, that sounds crazy! He and
Dunn had just sold out the Arizona
ranch, at Dunn's order. Dunn s
share was the biggest, and of course
they couldn't get but part cash; but
there was fifty thousand ready mon
ey mixed into the deal. Flagg didn't
have any reason for coming in any
such way as that!"
''He done it, though. It was right
hard for me to find anybody that
knew he'd been there at all. Sure
seems like Flagg was taking every
way he could think of to get to the
"a without being noticed. I thought
it was kind of peculiar that Flagg
should come by way of Pahranagat,
which is kind Of like sliding in the
back door. Still, that wouldn't mean
anything by itself; some of us old
guys get used to thinking in terms
Of saddle work. But this other thing
its queer"
'Well, you must have mistaken
your mani"
''No, I didn't"
Wheeler turned thoughtful, they
were silent for some minutes. A
dark and ugly reason for Flagg's
peculiar behavior was taking shape.
'Do you suppose Lon Magoon
could have been a spy, sent to Pah-
ranagat to watch for Bob Flagg?"
"a spy for who?"
"A spy for the men that set out to
kill Flagg. We know who the ene-
mics of the 81 are. Link Bender
Pinto Halliday-Rufe Dean-even
Sam Caldwell-there isn't a one of
them that would have hesitated to
shoot man down, if it meant wip-
ing out the "a. We know that those
people, or some of them, got access
to Horse Dunn's mail at Inspiration.
We can figure they knew that the
Arizona outfit was sold, and that
Flagg was on the way here with the
money-money that the 81 had to
have to pull through
IT had that figured out long ago."
Coffee said. II figured Cayuse Cay
etano was the cats paw for Link
Bender. Even after Cayetano was
killed, I thought maybe they just
killed him so he wouldn't turn
states evidence"
''But you don't think that now?"
''Now," said Coffee, II don't
think"
Throw out the death of Cayuse, t"
Wheeler suggested. Say that he
was killed simply because he was
too hot on the trail. Throw out the
death of Magoon-say that he was
feared as distant witness. It turns
back to the enemies of the o."
(Which includes everybody" Cof-
fee snorted.
Coffee, have you found out some
thing you're holding back?" Wheel
er asked.
Coffee shook his head. "You know
everything I know so far as I can
think"
'"Then you have some way of read
ing the facts-some way different
from what I've got.''
maybe. I've quit bothering my
head about it,
"Hell! You'll never make me
think that you're going to pull out
of this case and leave it unsolved."
''There's just one thing about this
case" Coffee admitted, that sure
hate to leave mixed up. How come
old Rock and me to get mixed up
about the trail of the killer horse?
I s'pose all the rest of my life"
Old Man Coffee's voice was bitter
"I'n never get away from wonder
ing how come lost that trail"
''Of course, if 1 remember right
ly," Wheeler reminded him, ''you
figured out from the way the shot
went into the saddle that the man on
the so-called killer horse was not
the killer"
THAT amt important. The man
on the killer horse took and hid the
body, anyway. Two men or one
comes to the same thing. Catch
one and you catch BOTH"
(TO BE CONTINUED)