"Your language is inelegant, friend Blenham," he said slowly. "Like
yourself it is better withdrawn from public notice. As to your
meaning--why, by thunder, I half believe you are right! And I hadn't
thought of it!"
Blenham caught In one of his rare bursts of heady rage shook his fist
high above his head and cried out savagely:
"I'll beat you yet, the both of you! See if I don't. Yes you an' your
crowd an' him an' her an'----"
"Don't take on too many all at once," suggested Steve.
Only the tail of his eye was on Blenham; he was looking wonderingly and
a bit wistfully down the moonlit, empty road.
"I got him where I want him right now," snarled Blenham. "An'
her--I'll have her, too, where I want her! An', inside less time than
you'd think I'll have----"
But he clamped his big mouth tight shut, glared at Steve a moment and
then, striking with spur and quirt together, so that his frightened
horse leaped out frantically, he was gone down the road after Temple
and Terry.
As Steve followed a smile was in his eyes, a smile slowly parting his
lips.
"The scoundrel was right!" he mused. "And I hadn't even thought of it.
Now how the devil do you suppose he knew?"
And then, before he had gone a dozen yards a curious, puzzled,
uncertain look come into his face.
"If he knows," was his perplexity, "Does she?"
CHAPTER XIX
TERRY CONFRONTS HELL-FIRE PACKARD
"Father's got it in his head he is going to die!" cried Terry.
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