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up one of the locals with some of the new guns right after we left," he said. "They busted him, and he sang like a bird. That's how they knew to come on ahead and wait for us."
"And just how do you figure that? I didn't tell anybody where we were going next—did you?"
Egervary was still glaring at him, but he gave his head a choppy shake, and Duan shrugged.
"Well, if you didn't, and if I didn't, I'm damned sure Annette didn't. So how do you think they could have figured it out."
"What about the port agent?" Egervary demanded. "He knew what we were doing. If they picked someone up and whoever it was turned him in, he could've told them."
"He couldn't tell them what he didn't know," e