I would dearly like," said John Wesley, "to visit Las Uvas--some dark night--in a Zeppelin." * * * * * At the corral gate the Major met them, with a face so troubled that Stella cried out in alarm: "Father! What is it?
Chris ?" "Stella--be brave! Dick Marr was killed at midnight--and they're swearing it off on Chris." "But John Wesley was with him." "That's just it.

Applegate and Creagan tell it that they saw Chris leaving town at eleven o'clock, that he said he was coming up here, and that he made a war-talk about Marr.

But not a word about Pringle or the fight at the hotel.

Joe Espalin doesn't appear--no claim that he saw Foy at all." "That looks ugly," observed Pringle.
"Ugly! Your testimony is to be thrown out as a lie made of whole cloth.

Espalin and the barkeeper don't appear.