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She gained a moment's respite from pursuit when the traders stopped at the wagons to get their bearings. The first of the white-topped schooners was untouched. The one nearest the entrance to the coulée held four whiskey-casks with staves crushed in and contents seeping into the dry ground. Against one of the wheels a rifle rested. The girl flying in a panic had forgotten it till too late.
It ended in a thick growth of willow saplings. Underneath the roof of this foliage were more than a score of whiskey-casks. After ten minutes with the rifle butt there was nothing to show for the cache but broken barrels and a trough of wet sand where the liquor had run down the bed of the dry gully. It was time, Morse thought, to play his own small part in the entertainment.
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