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But as the reader knows, the boys doubled on their trail and so divided the trap. After waiting till dark without any sign of pursuers, the raiders grew fearsome. "We've got to find out for sure whether it's somebody on our trail or just some one that is hunting," declared one of them, who, if the two brothers could have seen him, they would have recognized as Gus Megget.
"It's Long Sim o' the Cleuch," one said; "he's sib to Wat or he wadna be here. Sim likes his ain fireside better than the 'Bateable Land'." The companionship of others cheered him. There had been a time, before he brought Marion from Megget, when he was a well kenned figure on the Borders, a good man at weaponshows and a fierce fighter when his blood was up.
Now vamoose before you try my patience too far! Come on back, boys. Gus Megget won't bother you any more." "Prickly cactus! but it's 'Shorty, the sheriff from Pawnee County!" gasped one of the band or cow-punchers. "Come on, Gus; we must dig out of here! Shorty may pass the word he's seen us." Fear of the law caused the bully and his companions to wheel their ponies.
They put the laugh on Gus Megget, so I reckon they can take care of themselves in the hills and on the Half-Moon, too," he added with an emphasis which was to act as a warning to be passed along to the cowboys. "So it's them two I heard 'em talkin' about in Tolopah? Howdy, gents! I sure takes off my bonnet to you," and Ned swept his sombrero good naturedly from his head.
"Don't you worry about that," growled Megget. And before his companions were aware what he intended to do, he uttered the calls that caused the ranch owners and cowboys to start out into the prairie. Eagerly the raiders watched them disappear and Megget chuckled: "I thought I could fool 'em. It's easy when you are above any one."
"We must find out. The only way to do that, so far as I can see, is to follow the trail and discover where it leads." This proposition received the excited endorsement of the other two boys, and Horace added: "Wouldn't it be dandy if we could round up Megget and his men before father and the others? Come on!" "Don't be in too much of a hurry," urged Tom. "Oh, if you are afraid to go, you needn't.
"And the four of us, that makes twenty-three," added Horace, deeming the moment auspicious for settling the question that was uppermost in the minds of all the lads. "Your arithmetic is better than your facts," laughed his father. "Oh, can't we go, please? If Megget should see Larry and Tom, he might run and " "On the contrary, I'm afraid he might try to wipe out the disgrace they put upon him.
This foresight of his cowboy pleased the ranchman, and he commended him heartily. "You seem to have a pretty level head, Nails. What do you make of these raids on my herd? This makes the third. It rather seems to me as though the thieves had marked me for their particular victim." "That's my idea exactly," declared the cowboy. "And that's what makes me so sure Gus Megget had a hand in the raid."
And clapping spurs to his pony, he dashed southward. Fearing to disobey, the two raiders delegated to ride to the north started. But as soon as they were out of earshot one of them said: "Megget can fire the prairie if he wants to, I won't.
The rain came down in torrents, and had scarcely begun to pour, when the speat-rills of the high lands were heard dashing down like angry spirits to swell the Henderland Burn and the Megget, and raise the fury of these mountain streams.
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