We've got our chance at last; the chance to watch
and get Jim Galloway with the goods on. But we've got to wait until he
is just ready to strike. And then we are going to put a stop to
lawlessness in San Juan once and for all."
"But," she objected breathlessly, "if he should strike before you are
ready?"
"It is our one business in life that he doesn't do it. We know what he
is up to; we have found this hiding-place; we shall keep an eye on it
night and day. He doesn't know that we have been here; no one knows
but ourselves. You see now, Miss Page, why I couldn't bring Patten
here? Patten talks too much and Galloway knows every thought in
Patten's mind. And you understand how important it is for you to
forget that you have been here?"
She sat silent, staring into the embers of the dying fire.
"The thing which I can't understand," she said presently, "is that if
Jim Galloway is the 'big man' that you say he is he should do as much
talking as he must have done; that he should have told his plans to
such a man as the Indian who told them to Ignacio Chavez."
"But he didn't tell all of this," Norton informed her. "The Indian
died without guessing what I have told you. He merely knew that the
rifles were here because Galloway had employed him to bring them and
because he was the man who told Galloway of this hiding-place.
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