"My Lord! Think of grown men--officers of the law at that--being simple-minded
enough to come fogging out here to me, instead of getting on the trail of the
men that were seen on the spot! You say they came in a machine to the bank and
you never so much as tried to trace it, or to get the license number even,
I'll bet a month's salary you didn't! It was a moving-picture stall, and so
you come blundering out here to the only picture company in the country,
thinking, by gravy, that it was all straight goods--oh, can you beat that for
a boob?" He shook back his heavy mane of gray hair and turned to his boys
disgustedly.
"Pete and Tommy, you can drive the wagon back all right, can't you? We'll go
on ahead and see what there is at the bottom of this yarn."
CHAPTER X. DEPUTIES ALL
At the ranch, whither they rode in haste, Luck meant to leave his boys and go
on with the sheriff to town. But the Happy Family flatly refused to be left
behind. Even old Aleck Douglas--whom years and trouble had enfeebled until his
very presence here with Jean and Lite was a health-seekiing mission in the
wonderful air of New Mexico--even old Aleck Douglas stamped his foot at Jean
and declared that he was going, along to see that "the boy" got a square deal.
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