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“If I should arrest this woman, and find that you are right, what would you expect?” the scout demanded.

“The half of that ten thousand reward for the arrest of Tim Benson,” was the unexpected statement.

“What is that?” cried the scout.

“I heard, before I came here, that Tim Benson is a woman!”

The scout sat pondering this.

“Would that be any reason why Juniper Joe should want to shoot you?”

“He knows that I am here after Tim Benson!”

“I see.”

“And you’ll see that I’m right, if you arrest Mrs. Joe,” Dane declared, confidently. “That’s what I want you to do; and the sooner the better.”

“Why your hurry?”

“It will keep other fellows from being held up and killed by that couple,” he explained suavely.

The scout sat looking at him.

“This gives me a new idea,” he said.

“I thought it would.”

“For one thing”—he still looked at Dane—“I think I ought to arrest you; but—hold on, the door is locked, remember!—I am not going to do it—right now.”

Jackson Dane, who had leaped up with a startled look, dropped nervously back into his chair.