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IN BRIEF: Herding cattle to El Campo, Hoppy and California (last appearance by DuVal) stop at the Bar-8 to see old friend Smiley Haynes. Rustlers have been robbing him blind, Haynes says, and his water holes have turned to alkali. He's going to sell his ranch to neighbor Judge Flint. "Would Hoppy escort his daughter Connie back from El Campo?" he asks. Hoppy and California, expecting a ten-year-old, find instead a nineteen-year-old woman. "We were expecting a foal but she turned out to be a filly," Hoppy remarks. Returning to the ranch, they find Smiley has been shot. He dies muttering "Rustlers." Connie decides to sell to the judge even though Hoppy is convinced he's found gold nuggets at a water hole. Assayer Doc Blackwell says it's fool's gold. Hoppy believes he pulled a switch and is in cahoots with Flint. Old desert rat Dusty Jones tells Hoppy he sold some of his nuggets to Haynes. Hoppy then knows that Haynes was salting the waterhole in order to get $20,000 from the judge, who is behind the rustling. The sale goes through, and Hoppy has the sheriff arrest Flint and his foreman. [Ashkenazie]
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