Colonel Howell stepped forward, as if about to speak to the defeated man.
Then he paused.
"Can"t do any good," he exclaimed in an undertone to Norman. "We got there first. And he might have beaten us at that if he hadn"t stopped here in the hotel too long. We"ll take the afternoon train down to Calgary for a day"s visit. Then, when you"re ready, we"ll go back to the boys."