"When I mentioned the boys," he said, "I meant my boys that I brought from the Flying U outfit, up in Montana.

They go with me." Dewitt did not answer that statement immediately.

He inspected his finger nails thoughtfully before he glanced up.

"It's a pity, but I'm afraid that cannot be managed, Mr.Lindsay.The boys in my Western company have been with me, some of them, since the Independent Sales Company was organized.

They worked for next to nothing till I got things started.