Stealing _our_ horses to sell to the Mexicans, if you please, and selling his own to the government mostly--but some to the Mexicans, too, I suppose.

And nobody suspecting a thing all the while, and Tex in with them and all.

And if you hadn't stampeded the horses so they came back to the line, and the boys rounded them up, dad would have lost a lot more than he did.

But now the whole thing is out, and really, if I hadn't caught those two greasers, there wouldn't be any evidence against the Tucker Bly outfit, or Tex either.

And I just think it's awful, the way--" She stopped abruptly.