way. Then things took a turn for the worse. Ranchers reported loss of cattle, and two or three men have been killed. From all I’ve heard I think the death of those men was unnecessary.” “ H ow do you figure that?” I said. “ I’ll tell you and this is m y pri vate opinion so keep it under your hat for the time being. But I be lieve that Tom Ketchum has either become gun happy and has gone to killing men just to collect the re ward or he’s the victim of a bad situation. Knowing Tom as I think I do, I ’m inclined to believe the latter.” “ Certainly killing men just to col lect a reward doesn’t make sense to me either, Bart, so I go along with you on the idea that he may be caught in some kind of a crooked deal,” I said. “ This thing has had me all stirred up and I ’ve been wondering just what to do to satisfy m y suspicions and get at the bottom of this trouble. N ow I think I have a good idea. I’m going to send someone into that part of the country, someone they are not likely to suspect as being a range detective, someone I can really trust.” And having said that much the sheriff turned those piercing, kindly eyes at me, and when he did they opened real wide and brightened up like a candle in the dark. “ And b y crackie, I believe you are the man.” “ W hat?” I said, really surprised. I rose to m y feet, not sure if he was serious or not. “ You must think that I’m tired of living.” “ No, I don’t think that, Leonard, but I am thinking that some of the men who have been killed were not tired of living either. And if some one like you doesn’t go in there to help me get the mess cleaned up, other men who aren’t tired of liv ing w ill get killed.” And that’s how it all happened, m y becoming a range detective out on the Laramie Plains working for the law. The next day I was on m y way. M y job was to move around from place to place getting information that might be o f help at headquarters in Cheyenne. A p parently, whoever was responsible for giving the ranchers so much trouble was not interested in horses because none had been reported missing. A fter I’d been praying for a while
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