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Mr.Trendley Assumes Added Importance.
That the rustlers were working under a well organized system was evident.

That they were directed by a master of the game was ceaselessly beaten into the consciousness of the Association by the diversity, dash and success of their raids.

No one, save the three men whom they had destroyed, had ever seen them.

But, like Tamale Jose, they had raided once too often.
Mr.Trendley, more familiarly known to men as "Slippery," was the possessor of a biased conscience, if any at all.