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Show SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS At the Inquest Into the death of John Mason, banker, Jean, daughter of Campo Rafdand, owner of the Bar Hook ranch, where Mason met de.-ith, surreptitiously sur-reptitiously passes to Kentucky Jones the bullet which had killed .Mason, she having abstracted It from the evidence. Kentucky goes to work on the Bar Hook ranch. The Mason verdict la accidental death. Bob Elliot, owner of the "SS" ranch, adjoining the Bar Hook, drives his cattle on the Flar Hook land. Lee Bishop. Ragland'a ranch boss, expostulates, and Bill McCord. Mc-Cord. Elliot's foreman. Insults him. Bishop and Jones are astounded by Rapland's indifference to Elllot'e action. Jones tells Jean Elliot knows she purioined the bullet at the inquest, which Jones has pot rid of. Her reaction re-action mystifies him. Zack Sanders, cook at the Bar Hook ranch, is found riend, murdered. Sheriff Hopper. Investigating Sanders' death, announces his knowledge that Mason also was murdered. In a gun fight with riders of the "is- ranch Jim H u mjiiire i:.-r Hook cowboy, is killed and iilly Petersen badly wounded |