We've got a lot of valuable stuff here that
we can't get out at present and we'll have to leave it here. The
Rangers are watching this locality altogether too closely for comfort
so far as we are concerned. Withem is nosing around El Paso as you
know, lying low for some folks that we know of there. No use to
take chances when we don't have to. If you're all agreed we'll just
slope to the other side of the river and lie low for a month. What's
your idea?"
"I'm agreed, if you'll give me a chance to get even with that gang of
boys first," spoke up Tucker.
"You mean that you want to stay here after we've gone?" smiled Captain
Willie.
"I reckoned I'd like to until I'd done what I told you."
"Well, I reckon you won't do anything of the sort. When we go out of
here, none of us comes back till the whole crowd returns. Is that
clear, Dunk?"
The outlaw growled an unintelligible reply.
"The Rangers have drawn off, Captain," called the lookout.
"Which way?"
"Toward the camp."
"They're going to stay there all night," decided the leader. "Well,
we'll watch our chance and perhaps we'll be able to get away some time
late in the night. Are you all agreed on getting across the river if
we can make it?"
The men said they were.
"Then that's settled. Get out the grub. We'll feed up while we've got
the chance."
No fire was built. The men munched their food cold.
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