iness letting her ride that cayuse. He's a new one on me."

"It wasn't Doughnuts," Faith exclaimed. "It was that new bay, but I
won't do it again. But it was worth it to meet Turkey and bring him
home. Now you boys have got to make up. Turkey, tell him what you told
me."

Turkey told that and more. He told of the conversation he had overheard
between Garland and Poole.

"Why, I blamed you for that ditch business," Angus said.

"I know you did--now; but I didn't know it that night when you came to
my shack."

Turkey proceeded. He told of seeing Braden take the documents from
French's safe, and of how he had obtained them.

Angus scanned the deeds which Faith handed him, and going to a desk in
the corner found those which French had given Faith. He spread them on
the table and the four bent above them. Faith caught her breath sharply.

"The description of the land _is_ different!" she cried.

"Yes, it throws your land further west--all of it. According to this
your west line would be about where we thought it was--where French
originally told you it ran."

"Then--?"

"Then if these are the original deeds, you own the coal prospect that
Braden is developing."

"If they are the originals the others must be forgeries."

"Yes. It's plain enough. The originals were made by Braden and witnessed
by French. Somehow they found this coal and then they tried to buy you
out. When you wouldn't sell but demanded your deeds, they prepared new
ones, moving your block east and leaving out the coal lands. That was
easy, because Braden owned land on either side of yours. All they had to
do was to sign the new deeds themselves. Where they slipped up was in
not destroying the originals. I don't understand that, unless French
thought their possession would give him a hold on Braden if he didn't
play fair with the coal. Braden should have destroyed them when he stole
them from French."

"But what are we going to do about it?"

"I had better see Judge Riley."

"What's the matter with you and me and maybe Dave going up there and
standing up the bunch and running them off?" Turkey suggested. "I'd like
to hold a gun on Garland. I'm going to get him. That was a dirty
trick--"

"We'll get him. But Braden's the man I'm after. I'll give him a taste of
the law he's so fond of."

"I'm thinking of Kathleen," Faith interposed. "If Braden was a forger,
so was her father."

"But you can't let that deprive you of a hill full of coal."