"I'm most certainly glad to meet you, an' my name's Shorty. This here
is Lee. Want to come along with us?"
"Thank you. I'm a little worried."
"'S all right. Don't get worried. We'll show you the way out. Just
follow us."
They started back through the willows, Kate following half a dozen
yards behind.
"Listen here, Shorty," said Haines in a cautious voice. "You heard her
name?"
"Sure."
"Well, that's the daughter of the man that raised Whistling Dan. I
saw her at Morgan's place. She's probably been tipped off that he's
following Silent, but she has no idea who we are."
"Sure she hasn't. She's a great looker, eh, Lee?"
"She'll do, I guess. Now get this: The girl is after Whistling Dan,
and if she meets him she'll persuade him to come back to her father's
place. She'll take him off our trail, and I guess none of us'll be
sorry to know that he's gone, eh?"
"I begin to follow you, Lee. You've always had the head!"
"All right. Now we'll get Purvis to tell the girl that he's heard a
peculiar whistling around here this evening. We'll advise her to stick
around and go out when she hears the whistling again. That way she'll
meet him and head him off, savvy?"
"Right," said Rhinehart.
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