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“Once A few h the files and ran across the original bill of sale I figured it was time I learned the truth behind it, so I took the bill of sale in to hi me it was none of ain”

“Swearing and shouting at people were the two things Bull did best,” Beau said, easily visualizing the scene Will described “I’ll bet he threatened to kick you out if you brought it up again”

“More or less,” Will admitted

But it was the lac

k of any resentment in his voice that Beau couldn’t understand “That’s where you and I are different When he told me it was his way or hit the road, I told him what he could do with this ranch and his money and took the road”

“So that’s how it happened,” Will murmured

“With a lotback and forth” He hadn’t expected to feel all the old bitterness so strongly “The essence was that he didn’t give a da to live off him”

“That’s in the past Nothing good comatic as always

“Unless you can learn solance wander over the dry strean on the barbed wire fence strung across it “To get this land fro on him”

“Like what?” Will sounded skeptical

“So that makes sense,” Beau declared, then voiced the question that automatically came to mind “Wonder what it was?”

“I doubt if it was anything like that” Will dismissed the possibility with a shake of his head “More than likely Bull lost a bet to hi a bet to old -time”

“It ht have been that si to re, or is this the canyon where legend has it that lost Spanish gold is buried?”

The legend had been part of Texas for as long as anyone could remember The story went that a band of lost Spanish explorers, pursued by Indians, had becoold coins they were transporting before the Indians attacked and wiped them out

“That’s the way the story goes—if you believe that stuff” The line of Will’s mouth crooked in cynical derision “There isn’t an ounce of truth in it But who knows, it could be why old man Prescott wanted it I know for a fact he had a couplethe dirt through a box screen I later heard they never found a da”