"Maybe it has nothing to do with Buck--but I saw something else that was very puzzling.

I was going to investigate, but the fire broke out immediately and put everything else out of my mind.

A man was up on that sharp-pointed knoll off east of the trail where it leaves this coulee, and he had field glasses and was looking for something over this way.

I thought he was watching the trail.

I just caught him with the glasses by accident as I swung them over the edge of the benchland to get the trail focused.