Soon as ever I mentioned twenty-five hundred, he loosened up right smart." "Well?
Did he know where Foy was ?" "No; but he knew of the place where I judge Foy is, this very yet.
Gosh!" said Nueces River in deep disgust, "it beats hell what men will do for a little dirty money! Seems there's a cave near the top of the least of them two buttes--the roughest one--a cave with two mouths, one right on the big top.

Nobody much knows where it is, only the V H outfit." Pringle had edged across the room.

He now plucked at Bell Applegate's sleeve.
"Say, is that right about that reward--twenty-five hundred ?" he whispered.

His eyes glistened.
"Forty-five," said Bell behind his hand.

"The Masons, they put up a thousand, and Dick's old uncle--that would have let Dick starve or work--he tacked on a thousand more.