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The Sheriff's Son

savage act of reprisal before he left. Beaudry had no doubt that he would be the victim of it.

"What am I to do, then?" he wanted to know, his voice quavering.

"Stay right here at the ranch. Don't travel from the house till we check up on Meldrum. Soon as he shows his hand, we 'll jump him and run him out of the country. All you 've got to do is to sit tight till we locate him."

"I 'll not leave the house," Roy vowed fervently.