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CHAPTER XVI
The Range 16 Scandal
"I guess I didn't make any mistake in staying,"
said Trafford, more to break the embarrassing
silence which followed Cranston's withdrawal, than
with any definite purpose.
Matthewson glanced up with the air of a man who had half lost consciousness of surrounding circumstances in a line of painful thought.
"I am under deep obligation to you," he said slowly; and then, apparently tracking back to his thoughts before Trafford spoke, he added, as it seemed, irrelevantly:
"You said he could tell nothing you did not already know."
The pain which manifested itself in his face would have shown a far less keen man what the speaker had in mind, yet was not willing more directly to name.
