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IN BRIEF: Hoppy and California stop at the Flying K Ranch. Old Gordon Kingsley is looking for a new foreman since Ben Garrett disappeared. Elaine Kingsley, Gordon's young wife, sent for Hoppy to help find her missing artist brother, Rory Victor. The men ask around and find Garrett, dead. In his shirt is a drawing by Victor, showing a range scene and a windmill. Elaine says it is a rough version of a painting in her home. Kingsley doesn't like Victor, and accuses his wife of pawning her pearls to give money to her brother. She declares that's not the case, but refuses to show him the pearls, which are in a bank vault. He says she must wear them to the governor's ball. Victor tuns out to be Rory Varrick, who has escaped jail. A tough man, Reno, and his pard Dusty claim to be working an old mine. But when Hoppy challenges them, they draw guns. They killed Garrett. And Dusty, with an itchy finger, killed Victor, too, before he could reveal the location of $60,000 in old loot. He muttered "windmill," they say, and Hoppy knows the clue is in the drawing. Hoppy and California escape the basement of the old smelter, but when they reach the Flying K, Kingsley has been killed. The times don't jibe for Reno to have done it, however, and Hoppy knows Elaine killed him. He accuses her of being Rory Varrick's divorced wife. Varrick blackmailed her into giving him shelter and money. In a dispute, she shot her husband with a Spanish derringer. (Ashkenazie)
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