“And you will act upon the information he gave us, Bill?” “Of course, but not too hastily, as I wish to make a clean sweep of all the guilty ones, and have none of the innocent suffer.” “You are wise in that; but if you could trust your friend, Señor Otega, he might help greatly.” “Yes, but I’ll know just who to trust before I make a move. I shall make a visit to Silver Lake City and see how matters are there, for I wish to see the priest, and also have a talk with Riel, the innkeeper. In fact, I expect to go on a still hunt and be much away, so you take full control here, and at the right time we will act and make no mistake.” CHAPTER XLI. THE FIGHT IN THE SLEUTHS’ CAMP. Several days passed away, and Buffalo Bill was absent from the camp, for, acting under his orders, Texas Jack had encamped his men outside of the hacienda and away from its immediate surroundings. The chief of scouts was what the men called “playing a little game,” in this, for it could give those who haunted the hacienda the idea that the scout sleuths were afraid to stay there any longer. The truth was that Buffalo Bill was on a still hunt of detective work, and each one of his men was aiding him all in his power. The scout had not been gone a day from the camp before visitors began to drop in there, a thing that had never happened while they were at the hacienda. Just how it happened Texas Jack and his men did not know, or if they did they kept it to themselves; but trouble came, and at night, when the scouts were away from the camp. Blue Jacket Bob and Rio Grande Dick were the two men left in camp, and following the arrival of three strangers came a fatal fight. To the surprise of Blue Jacket Bob, two of the cowboy visitors were from the ranch of Señor Otega, and the other was from the hacienda of the fair hermit, and known to belong to the band who served the cowboy king, the Señorita Suelo’s chief of cowboys. Perhaps they had expected to find only one guard at the cowboy camp and rob it; but the two men they found there had proven more than a match for them. When Buffalo Bill returned to camp he found Texas Jack and the men, save two, off on scouting duty; but of those two one was dead, Rio Grande Dick, and Blue Jack Bob was wounded. With Buffalo Bill came Señor Otega. Doc Stevens had joined his chief back on the trail, fortunately as it proved, and as the three rode into camp there stood Blue Jacket Bob in the moonlight, and he called out: “Doc, I have a wound in my arm for you to dress, and it needs it, for I could not go to look you up, being all alone in camp.” “Why, where is Rio Grande Dick?” “I am sorry to say, sir, that he is dead.” “Dead! How was it, Bob?” But Buffalo Bill could see that Blue Jacket Bob was suffering, and he insisted that he should not make a report until his wound had been tended. This was now done by Doc Stevens, who said: