"You look like a sensible man, Swann," he said severely. "I'm surprised at
you. In the first place, two men don't run away from one."
A fleeting smile appeared and disappeared on the lips of Ben Swann. Haines
hastily went on: "As for stealing the baby from Dan Barry, good heavens,
man, don't you think a mother has a right to her own child? Now go back to
that scared bunch and tell them that Dan Barry is back in the Grizzly
Peaks."
For several reasons this did not completely satisfy the foreman, but he
postponed his decision. Lee Haines spoke like one in the habit of giving
orders, and Swann walked slowly back to the cookhouse.
Chapter XXXVIII. The New Alliance
"And so," said Lee Haines, when he joined Buck Daniels in the living-room,
"there goes our reinforcements. That whole crew will scatter like dead
leaves when Barry breezes in. It looks to me--"
"Shut up!" cut in Daniels. "Shut up!"
His dark, homely face turned to the larger man with a singular expression
of awe. He whispered: "D'you hear? She's in the next room whippin' Joan for
runnin' away, and never a yap out of the kid!"
He held up a lean finger for caution and then Haines heard the sound of the
willow switch.
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