noon
`` Good night , señor . '' When the Ranger had gone , Gonzalez walked slowly toward his house with his head bowed thoughtfully . `` It is very strange , '' he muttered . `` How could Don Eduardo have met this Garza at noon when , with my own eyes , I saw him ride away from Las Palmas at three o'clock in the afternoon ? It is very strange . '' On his way to the Lewis ranch Dave Law had a struggle with himself . He had earned a reputation as a man of violent temper , and the time was not long past when a fraction of the insult Ed Austin had offered him would have provoked a vigorous counterblast .