He spoke to them, briefly:
"You're ridin' straight to Tucson as fast as your cayuses can take you.
You ought to make it in a week. I'll give you that long. Find Gary
Miller. Tell him I sent you, an' find out what he knows about young
Bill Bransford. Then hit the breeze back. If it takes you more than
two weeks I'll knock your damned heads off!"
CHAPTER IX
THE LITTLE MAN TALKS
Mary Bransford spent the first day of Sanderson's absence in the
isolation of the parlor, with the shades drawn, crying. Her brother
had bitterly disappointed her.
He had sent word by one of the men that he was going to Las Vegas to
look up the title to the property. She thought he might at least have
brought her the message personally.
Mary told herself that she had not been unduly demonstrative, as
Sanderson had intimated by his actions. She had merely been glad to
see him, as any sister would be glad to see a brother whom she had not
seen for many years; and she assured herself that if he loved her as
she loved him he would not have resented her display of affection.
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