"
"That would be the best plan, if it won't trouble you too much.
We'd better keep his whereabouts quiet till this fellow Hardman
is out of the country."
"Yes, though I hardly think he'd be fool enough to show up at the
Rocking Chair. If my vaqueros met up with him prowling around
they might show him as warm a welcome as you did half an hour
ago."
"A chapping would sure do him a heap of good," grinned Bucky, and
so dismissed the Champion of the World from his mind.
CHAPTER 5. BUCKY ENTERTAINS
Bucky began at once to tap the underground wires his official
position made accessible to him. These ran over Southern Arizona,
Sonora, and Chihuahua. All the places to which criminals or
frontiersmen with money were wont to resort were reported upon.
For the ranger's experience had taught him that since the men he
wanted had money in their pockets to burn gregarious impulse
would drive them from the far silent places of the desert to the
roulette and faro tables where the wolf and the lamb disport
themselves together.
The photograph from Webb Mackenzie of the cook Anderson reached
him at Tucson the third day after his interview with that
gentleman, at the same time that Collins dropped in on him to
inquire what progress he was making.
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