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"Come along with us!" commanded the puncher, gruffly, as another stepped up and slipped the noose of a lariat-rope over his head. "So I am to be lynched, am I?" asked the pilgrim in a matter-of-fact tone, as with a cowboy on either side he was hurried across the platform and onto a horse. "This ain't no time to talk," growled another.
The moonlight filtered through in tiny patches which brought out the faces of the men with grotesque distinctness and plunged them again into blackness. Gravely the Texan edged his horse to the side of the pilgrim. "Get off!" he ordered tersely, and Endicott dismounted. "Tie his hands!" A cowboy caught the man's hands behind him and secured them with a lariat-rope.
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