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IN BRIEF: The cowboys are headed for Pinto Springs on a hot August day. "I'm so thirsty I believe I could drain the Rio Grande in one swaller," comments California. They see a man lying beside the trail. He's been killed by shotgun. It's Jack Folton, a rider for Dave Daniels' Double D. Daniels, too, was killed by a shotgun blast and his daughter Helen is running the spread. Daniels and neighbor Owen Ransom were partners in a mine deal. Ransom says the mine's gone bad, but he paid the last $4,000 to Daniels the night he died. His foreman Duke Snyder swears to it. The money turned up missing. Suspects include Daniels' foreman, Will Banning, who's in love with Helen, against Daniels' wishes. Folton left a clue in the sand: a drawing of a double shafted arrow, pointing toward Ransom's place, It means nothing to the sheriff. Hoppy and California bunk at the Double D and learn from Chinese cook Chung that something fishy has been going on at a toolshed on the Ransom ranch. They investigate and are trapped inside. Someone torches the building. They escape. Hoppy confronts Ransom and says he was cheating Daniels. He says the clue Fulton left pointed to - Chung. It was an attempt to draw his Chinese name. [Smith]
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