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ch our headquarters," he said to Mr. Merkel.
"You will be very welcome," the ranchman remarked.
"I am glad to know that," resumed Dr. Wright. "Well, I hurriedly got a party together, taking as my personal helper Zeb Tauth, the janitor of part of the college building where I am stationed. I know Zeb's ways, and he knows mine.
"We rather lost our way in the darkness," continued the scientist, "and, leaving the main party, Zeb and I journeyed on to look for the ranch. We heard shots and saw a party of horsemen riding after us, and Zeb at once concluded we were going to be held up and made the victims of horse thieves. So we did our best to get away."
"You rode mighty well, Professor! Yon rode mighty well!" complimented Slim Degnan.
"But what's the next thing to be done?" asked Bud, as there came a pause in the conversation. "Did they take everything out of the safe, Dad?"
"Well, I didn't have much money in it, luckily, but they did get some valuable papers--documents that prove my claim to land along Spur Creek--land that is the key to the situation in this new tract the government is opening, or, as a matter of fact, has already opened."
"It means the sheep herders can come in then; does it?" asked Nort.
"Practically that, unless I can get back those papers and prove that I am the real owner of the land, and that I owned it before this government opening took place," answered Mr. Merkel.
"It must have been someone interested in sheep herding who knew about the papers, who knew you had them here and who wanted them," commented Dick.
"Yes, that's probably true," assented the ranchman.
"Well, there's only one thing to do," declared Bud.
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