Or you kin ast Mis' Green; she kin tell ye, if she's a mind to." "Did Bill Holmes go with her ?" Luck's eyes were growing hard and gray.
"As to that I won't say, fer I don't know and I'm tellin' yuh what I seen myself.

Bill Holmes done a lot uh walkin' in to town, fur as that goes; and he didn't always git back the same day neither.

He never went off with Annie, and he never came back with her, fur as I ever seen.
But," he added grimly, "they didn't come back together las' night, neither.

They come about three or four minutes apart." Luck thought a minute, scowling off across the arroyo.

Not even to Applehead, bound to him by closer ties than anyone there, did he ever reveal his thoughts completely.
"All right--I'll attend to them," he said finally.