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Your father was chosen second in command, and was to guide the party; for he knew almost every one of the rustlers, and could ride directly to their doors." "I wish he hadn't done that," murmured the girl. "I must be frank with you, Virginia. I can't excuse that in him. It was a kind of treachery. He must have been warped by his associates.
Above them, on the right side rose the rocky wall of the mountain, not altogether sheer in its ascent, but curving in and then out at the top, the upper ridge forming a shelf. Mesquite grew seemingly out of the solid rock. "Oh, look," exclaimed the girl. "There's almost a little cave up there under that shelf! It could be a rustler's cave if there were any rustlers around."
Was it possible that Sampson could be a deep eyed, cunning scoundrel, the true leader of the cattle rustlers, yet keep that beautiful and innocent girl out on the frontier and let her give parties to sons and daughters of a community he had robbed? To any but remorseless Rangers the idea was incredible.
"Then you're after some cattle rustlers or bad men, I reckon," Frank remarked. "A couple of the worst scoundrels ever known around these diggings," replied the officer. "They've been jumping from one county into another, when pushed; and in the end Hand, here, and myself concluded we'd just join our forces.
The punchers of the D Bar Lazy R were moving a large herd to a new range. It was made up of several lots bought from smaller outfits that had gone out of business under the pressure of falling prices, short grass, and the activity of rustlers. The cattle had been loose-bedded in a gulch close at hand, the upper end of which was sealed by an impassable cliff.
Just behind stood the rough shanty, which was the bunkhouse for the cowhands employed in this region. The doctor was still within, tending the grievously injured man who had been so badly wounded in the previous night's raid by the rustlers. For the time Dug's beaming eyes were shadowed with a concern that was half angry and wholly depressed.
It was as though the rustlers had driven the cattle to the bottom of a rocky and bush- covered slope, and then as if the side of the hill had suddenly opened, providing a way through. "Like some old fairy yarn!" declared Bud. "This gets me!" "If we could only have gotten on the trail of the rascals sooner, Bud, we might have learned the secret," spoke Nort. "We ought to keep better watch!"
Tell Barb I'll give him twenty-four hours to get every hoof, round or split, that belongs to me back to the Falling Wall failing which I'll be over to talk to him privately. Will you do that, Tex?" "I sure will." "These rustlers here," he looked toward Stone and Van Horn, "won't be able to carry messages for awhile. They're ridin' to town with me.
But the rustlers were not going to give up without a sharp fight. They had come to take away the cattle, and this they now endeavored to do. Several Greasers separated from the main body and began to circle around with the evident intention of cutting out a bunch of steers, to drive them to the larger opening, where the fence had been torn down. "We've got to stop that!" shouted Slim.
"Sterry," said the captain impressively, "the only friend you have among the rustlers is that same Vesey, and I place less faith in him than you do; yet you propose this wild scheme, without even the doubtful help of that man, and still expect me to approve it." "You put it truthfully; I will only say that in the darkness I hope to be taken for one of them." "And if you are?"
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