But here's my
business. Lee Haines is jailed in Elkhead. The man that put him behind
the bars an' the only one that can take him out agin is Whistlin' Dan.
An' the one person who can make Dan set Lee loose is you. Savvy? Will
you go an' talk with Dan? This wolf of his would find him for you."
She shook her head.
"Why not?" cried Silent in a rising voice.
"The last time he saw me," she said, "he had reason to think that I
tried to betray him because of Lee Haines. If I went to him now to
plead for Haines he'd be sure that I was what he called me--Delilah!"
"Is that final?"
"Absolutely!"
"Now get me straight. They's a crowd of cowpunchers gatherin' in
Elkhead, an' today or tomorrow they'll be strong enough to take the
law into their own hands and organize a little lynchin' bee, savvy?"
She shuddered.
"It ain't pleasant, is it, the picture of big, good-lookin' Lee
danglin' from the end of a rope with the crowd aroun' takin' pot-shots
at him? No, it ain't, an' you're goin' to stop it. You're goin' to
start from here in fifteen minutes with your hoss an' this wolf, after
givin' me your promise to come back when you've seen Whistlin' Dan.
You're goin' to make Dan go an' set Lee loose.
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