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`` I 'd like to meet him and confront Link Merwell -- and Job Haskers , too , if he is with them . '' `` So would I , '' added Dave and Phil , in a breath . It was more agreeable riding , now that the heat of the day was over . At noon it had been very hot , but none of the boys had complained , although they had perspired freely . As it became darker they could see the twinkling lights of many a mining town and camp shining out in the mountains and the valleys below . `` It did n't used to be so , when first I came to Montana , '' remarked Tom Dillon . `` In them days you could ride out here all night an ' not see a light .