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sharp rocks, speared them on cactus, finally had to stop. He retraced his way to the bunkhouse door in
agony and sat on the stoop, listening to the sounds of two horses going away.

By now, the other cowhands had started appearing. The bunkhouse was a long one, and Ben had been
sleeping alone in a section at the far end which had formerly been a harness room. It gave him, in effect, a
private room.

"I was just takin’ my nightly exercise," Ben told them dryly.

Carl D’Orr appeared. He owned the Broken Circle. Carl D’Orr was a man with the clothes ideas of a
movie hero, and the figure of a pot-bellied financier. He was no cowman, not even a Westerner. Ben had
overheard him call a heifer a steer, and Ben had thereafter held his own opinions of a boss who couldn’t
tell the sex of a cow.

Carl D’Orr seemed to be enraged. He was holding a large white handkerchief to his face, and the
handkerchief was thoroughly blood-soaked.

"What’s this damned uproar?" D’Orr yelled.

"Visitors," Ben said.
"Who? Where?" D’Orr kept the handkerchief to his nose, and it was large enough to obscure most of his
face.

"Last I heard, they was high-tailin’ it for the hills," Ben said. "They tried to choke me."

"Choke you?"

"I guess maybe it was a robbery," Ben amended.

D’Orr coughed into the handkerchief. He seemed to be in a great deal of pain.

"What did they get?" he snapped.

"I dunno," Ben said. "I ain’t looked."

"Well, look and see," D’Orr ordered irritably.



THE puzzle, the little thing of tin and glass and ten steel balls, where you rolled the balls into holes in a
green eagle, was gone. Ben had placed it on the shelf over his bunk, so he was immediately sure that it
was gone.

He looked in the tangled bunk bedclothes, and under the bunk, to make certain that it had not merely
been jarred off the shelf.

In sudden alarm he examined the tobacco tin in which he was in the habit of hiding his money. A relieved
breath escaped him. His wealth was intact.

He went back outdoors.