"
"There has been gossip, then?"
"Not what you would call gossip, exactly. Only folks who had seen them
riding and driving together a few times seemed to think that, while she
was very much in love with him, he never made any fuss over her."
"How long have you known Farnsworth?"
"About three years. Ever since he has been traveling through this part
of Arizona."
"Don't you know that he is a very undemonstrative man, and that if he
really cared for any one he is not the sort to exhibit it?"
"Yes, I reckon Fancy is a cold sort of a proposition."
"How have you got him sized up?"
"I'd hardly know how to tell it. He's some of a mystery to me, and he
ain't never let no one as I know of snuggle beneath his jacket."
"But, as an officer, you must have kept some sort of tab on him."
"Sure. I know Fancy as well as most. I always looked upon him as a
crook, and a very dangerous man with a gun."
"Has he ever been convicted of a crime?"
"Ain't never been able to land him. Generally he gets away by some slick
trick, just as he did to-night, or he bluffs off the fellows who go
after him with his guns."
"Has any crime ever been fastened on him so positively that there was no
doubt that he committed it?"
"Can't say there was; but that don't cut no ice, for he's been in
several killings where no gun got busy but his, an' we've been able to
track him right up to crimes, but there we lose him.
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