We'll walk there."
"I have promised to go out to Colonel Billings' ranch to-morrow, and I
took the liberty of accepting the invitation for you all, as there is
nothing to do around here, and I have a hunch that something good will
come of it."
"I'll be glad to go. You know how much I like the town. I wouldn't care
if I never saw one again."
"It's all right, then. We'll start in the morning. I am more than
anxious to go now, especially as Billings tells me he has invited
several other people to be his guests."
"Who are they?"
"You remember the girl who slipped the note into my pocket in the St.
Louis station, and the young fellow with the pointed beard. Well, I saw
them both in town this morning. The girl ran away from me on the street,
jumped into a carriage, and drove away."
"There's nothing about you to cause a girl to run." Stella looked up at
Ted in a teasing way.
"That'll be all right," said he. "But a few minutes after I saw the
fellow with the pointed beard coming out of the private office of
Norcross, the president of the bank that was robbed of the forty
thousand dollars.
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