"You will not get that so easily," she said.

"But," she added, interestedly, "now that you know where the idol is, why don't you get it and convert it into cash ?" He reddened and eyed her with a decidedly crestfallen air.

"I ain't so much stuck on monkeyin' with them religious things," he admitted.
Again a doubt arose in his mind concerning her relations with Neal Taggart.

The fact that she had not divulged the hiding place of the idol to him was proof that if he had been trying to deceive her he had not succeeded.

This thought filled him with a sudden elation.
"Lately," he said, "it begins to look as though you was gettin' some sense.