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“Did you say something?” asked Wild Bill, looking the cattle barons over with a grin which he made as irritating as possible.

“You were seen to pick up somethin’ in the road,” said Benner angrily, “somethin’ that came out of my watch. I want it.”

“Oh, you do. You’ll have to go into details a little more if you expect me to identify what you’ve lost. Was there anything but the works that came out of that watch?”

“You know mighty well there was!” scowled Benner.

“I know mighty well that you’ve got to tell me what you lost before I can tell you whether or not I know anything about it.”

“That is very reasonable, Mr. Benner,” put in the sky pilot. “It is necessary for——”

“Dry up!” interrupted Phelps roughly. “You ain’t got a thing to do with this, Jordan, so you keep out.”

“What have you got to do with it, Mr. Phelps?” queried the sky pilot pleasantly. “I thought it was Mr. Benner who had lost something.”

“Oh, I’ve got plenty to do with it!” snorted Phelps, giving his head a flirt that set all the dangling brim ornaments to clattering. “I sent him what he lost.”