ches between his feet. Kerr was
so vehemently indignant that attention was drawn to them, which
probably was the fugitive cattleman's design, seeing in numbers a chance
to make a dash.

Lambert had not forgotten the experience of his years at the Kansas City
Stockyards, where he had seen confidence men and card sharpers play the
same scheme on policemen, clamoring their innocence until a crowd had
been attracted in which the officer would not dare risk a shot. He kept
Kerr within reaching distance, flashed the warrant before his eyes,
passed it up and down in front of his nose, and put it away again.

"There's no mistake, not by a thousand miles. You'll come along back to
Glendora with me."

A policeman appeared by this time, and Kerr appealed to him, protesting
mistaken identity. The officer was a heavy-headed man of the
slaughter-house school, and Lambert thought for a while that Kerr's
argument was going to prevail with him. To forestall the policeman's
decision, which he could see forming behind his clouded countenance,
Lambert said:

"There's a reward of nine hundred dollars standing for this man. If
you've got any doubt of who he is, or my right to arrest him, take us
both to headquarters."

That seemed to be a worthy suggestion to the officer. He acted on it
without more drain on his intellectual reserve. There, after a little
course of sprouts by the chief of detectives, Kerr admitted his
identity, but refused to leave the state without requisition. They
locked him up, and Lambert telegraphed the sheriff for the necessary
papers.

Going home was off for perhaps several days. Lambert gave his little
satchel to the police to lock in the safe. The sheriff's reply came back
like a pitched ball. Hold Kerr, he requested the police; requisition
would be made for him. He instructed Lambert to wait till the papers
came, and bring the fugitive home.

Kerr got in telegraphic touch with a lawyer in the home county. Morning
showed a considerable change of temperature in the frontier financier.
He announced that, acting on legal advice, he would waive extradition.
Lambert telegraphed the sheriff the news, requesting that he meet him at
Glendora and relieve him of his charge.

Lambert prepared for the home-going by buying another revolver, and a
pair of handcuffs for attaching his prisoner comfortably and securely to
the arm of the seat. The little black bag gave him no worry. It wasn't
half the trouble to watch mon