He got it yesterday--last night--while you was gassin' to your friend, Neal Taggart." She started, recollection filling her eyes.

"A Toltec!" she said in an awed voice.

"I have heard that they are fanatics where their religion is concerned; your father told me that his--that woman--Ezela--told him.

She said that the tribe would never give up the search for the idol.

He laughed at her; he laughed at me when he told me about it." She drew a deep breath.