The question which sprang into Buck's eyes found a silent answer in those of his friend.
They rode on side by side through the clear night and together drifted back to the days of the Double Y.
After an hour had passed, the foreman of the Bar-20 turned to his companion and then hesitated: "Did, did--was he a cur ?" Frenchy looked off toward the south and, after an interval, replied: "Yas." Then, as an after thought, he added, "Yu see, he never reckoned it would be that way." Buck nodded, although he did not fully understand, and the subject was forever closed..