He wished them luck and
hurried away, evidently much relieved to get away and out of an uncomfortable
position.
In the next two hours Luck managed to accomplish a good deal, which was one of
the reasons why he was manager and director of the Flying U Feature Films.
Just for example, he went to a friend who was also something of a detective,
and put him on the job of find Annie-Many-Ponies--a bigger task than it looked
to Luck, as we have occasion to know. He sent some of the boys back to the
ranch in a machine, and told them just what to bring back with them in the way
of rifles, bedding rolls, extra horses and so on. The horses they had ridden
into town he had housed in a livery stable. He took the Native Son and a
Mexican driver and went over to Atrisco, routed perfectly polite and terribly
sleepy individuals out of their beds and learned beyond all question that a
red automobile with several men in it had passed through the dusty lanes and
had labored up the hill to the desert mesa beyond and that no one had seen it
return.
He sent a hundred-and-fifty-word message to Dewitt of the Great Western
Company in Los Angeles, explaining with perfect frankness the situation and
his determination to get out after the robbers, and made it plain also that he
would not expect salary for the time he spent in the chase.
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