CHAPTER V
THE CONFERENCE AT JORNY SPRINGSI
T was seven o’clock in the morning when Andy Jerome set off on Charmian Reemy’s gray saddler for his camp. A trail led direct from El Trono de Tolerancia to the county road, and once upon it Andy could not possibly miss the way. He was to leave the horse at Lovejoy’s, a wilderness resort, and continue on afoot to camp. There he would get his big touring car and drive back to a point in the county road opposite Charmian’s home. She and the doctor were to travel after him afoot and meet him there. And Mary Temple had flatly refused to allow Charmian to “go traipsin’ off with a couple o’ strange men the Lord knew where,” so she had truculently constituted herself one of the party.
Andy met the trio about noon. Dr. Shonto took the seat in the tonne
