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Rh Sheridan opened the yellow envelope, read its contents aloud.

"Voy a Yuma las guintas. Pedro en Pioche. Sea Vd bien prudente. A dios. Gracias. Juanita."

"Leavin' for Yuma at five o'clock. Pedro in Pioche. Look out. God bless you, thank you an' goodbye," interpreted Jackson. "Short an' concise, like the tail of a docked hawss. Well, I ain't worryin' none about Pedro. Me, I'm goin' to find out what Quong's got for supper."

Sheridan, too, dismissed Pedro's dangerous possibilities as he rolled up his maps and drawings that, at last, began to suggest more than the drafting of a dream.