"Anyway," said Buck, "I'm glad to see you ain't a fool. How's things
at the camp?"
"Rotten. They's a girl up there--"
"A girl?"
"You look sort of pleased. Sure they's a girl. Kate Cumberland, she's
the one. She seen us hold up the train, an' now we don't dare let
her go. She's got enough evidence to hang us all if it came to a
show-down."
"Kate! Delilah."
"What you sayin'?"
"I say it's damn queer that Jim'll let a girl stay at the camp."
"Can't be helped. She's makin' us more miserable than a whole army of
men. We had her in the house for a while, an' then Silent rigged up
the little shack that stands a short ways--"
"I know the one you mean."
"She an' her dad is in that. We have to guard 'em at night. She ain't
had no good word for any of us since she's been up there. Every time
she looks at a feller she makes you feel like you was somethin'
low-down--a snake, or somethin'."
"D'you mean to say none of the boys please her?" asked Buck curiously.
He understood from Dan's delirious ravings that the girl was in love
with Lee Haines and had deserted Barry for the outlaw. "Say, ain't
Haines goodlookin' enough to please her?"
Purvis laughed unpleasantly.
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