Wasn't this very money--thirty-two hundred dollars of it--going to pay for that bit of gullibility?
Gulled into earning money to pay for an earlier piece of gross stupidity! "The prize--mark!" he branded himself.

"By golly, they've got me helping 'em do worse than steal horses from the Rolling R, this time; putting something over on the government is their little stunt--and by golly, I fell for the bait just like I done the other time! _Huhn_!" Then he added a hopeful threat.

"But they had me on the hip, that time--this time it's going to be different!" For the rest of that day he brooded, waiting for Cliff.

What he would do he himself did not know, but he was absolutely determined that he would do something..