"I've taken up temporary quarters here.

Have a rustler job on hand.

Now, when you've eaten, come right into the house." Duane was hungry, but he hurried through the ample supper that was set before him, urged on by curiosity and astonishment.

The only way he could account for his presence there in a ranger's camp was that MacNelly hoped to get useful information out of him.

Still that would hardly have made this captain so eager.