He protested against being blamed for being too confiding. He had never
dreamed, he said, that anyone could be so bold as to plan a thing like that.
It all sounded straight, about the spoiled negative and so forth. He was very
sorry that he had caused Luck Lindsay any inconvenience or annoyance, and he
begged Luck's pardon several times in the course of his explanation of the
details.
They left him still protesting and apologizing and explaining and touching his
bandaged head with self-pitying tenderness. In the street Luck turned to the
sheriff as though his mind was made up to something which argument could not
alter in the slightest degree.
"I realize that in a way I'm partly responsible for this," he said crisply.
"The scenes I took the other day made this play possible for Ramon and his
bunch. What you'd better do right now is to swear Applehead and me in as
deputies--and any of the boys that want to come along and help round up that
bunch. We'll do it, if it's to be done at all. I feel I kind of owe it to that
poor simp in there to get the money back--sabe? And I owe it to myself to
bring in Ramon and Bill Holmes, and whoever else is with 'em on this; young
Rojas we know is for one.
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