Shoot-out at Split Rock (20 page)

A slow smile softened the rancher's face. "No, that's my scamp of a son, Andrew Eden," he repUed, and the harshness was gone from his voice also. "I figured he had you fooled, Judy."

The lady snorted. "Take more'n dyed hair an' a wisp o' bunch grass on an upper hp to fool the woman he used to plague to death with his pranks," she retorted. "I knowed him right away, but I was—curious."

"Your son, and you treated him so—unkindly?" Carol cried. "You could even think . .."

The rancher wriggled uneasily and then shook his head. *T)on't reckon I ever really beUeved that, but I had to be shore," he excused. "An' I wanted to see if he would stand the iron. I didn't know the game but I was willin' to play it his way, so I told Jeff an' Peg-leg to keep their traps closed—they savvied him too. How you come to be with Rogue, boy?"

"Grot word he was rustlin' yore catde," Sandy explained. "Later, I learned it was more serious an' when he sent Jim an' myself to join yore outfit it looked like a chance to put a crimp in his plans."

"Why pertend to be a stranger?" Eden asked.

Sandy looked embarrassed. "You ain't rememberin* how we parted," he said.

"Fve not forgotten," he admitted. "Threatened to fill you with buckshot if you showed up again, didn't I? Well, that's all past an' done—I reckon we've both learned sense since that day. You've made good an' I'm proud o' you, son." His eyes twinkled as he went on, "It's a pity Carol don't like redheads—claims she's had enough trouble with me, but mebbe she—" He looked round the room and seemed surprised to fimd the girl had sHpped away. "Now where in mischief has she gone? You better go find her, boy; somebody is Uable to steal her again."

Sandy's old impudent smile was back. "Somebody's gOLQ' to," he promised.

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