"
"Some other day would suit better, if you can arrange it conveniently,"
Reade suggested, as he rose.
Then they left Danes, securing their horses and riding back over the
scorching desert.
"How do you like Danes?" Harry asked, after they had ridden some
distance. "He seems a very pleasant fellow."
"Very pleasant," Tom nodded.
"Why didn't you let him come along?"
"Because I don't like Danes' employers."
"His employers?" Harry repeated, puzzled.
"Yes; he is employed by the Colthwaite Company."
"What?" Hazelton started in astonishment. "How do you know that, Tom?"
"I don't know it, but I'm sure of it, just the same," was Reade's
answer.
"It maybe so," Harry agreed. "What makes you suspect him?"
"Well, in the first place, Danes, if that's his name--said he hailed
from Baltimore. Yet he had none of that soft, delightful southern
accent that you and I have noticed in the voices of real southern men.
Danes uses two or three words, at times, that are distinctly Chicago
slang.
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