y up water, for daylight revealed another guard across the valley and it was clea

ght a posse with him. He agreed with her. He said he had started with a posse, but that t

last day or two they've been closing up round this cave, and in a night

Tish, "is to get out while there is t

you women h

"and we've managed alone for a good

ride out of the valley on Modestine's back in daylight, he objected. He said no outlaw worthy of the nam

d Tish prevai

ving this afternoon and going back home. That will be you. I wish you had a razor, but the v

e of us dared to think what might happen if the hat

sat at the back of the cave, playing solitaire and every now and then examining the road maps. Aggie was depressed too. But, as Tish said, get

the cave with the road map on his knees, Tish went to the farmhouse. She ca

oon," she said. "I talke

screeche

ere traveling like Stevenson-with a donkey; but that one of the ladies had an abscess on a t

do if one of them comes up and makes an

ked at h

t bother you. I said the toothache had affected your disposition, and we were just as glad you were going. The red-haired man says

arlie Sands said later, when we told him the story and he had sat, open-mouthed, staring from one

ied up, veiled and sun-hatted, with Aggie's flowered-silk bag hanging to one wrist and a l

ter of fact, no matter what Charlie Sands may say, it was no

" out of sight round a curve, looked up at him and nodded. Far aw

e told us as we cleared up the

that we have a young man with us, a stranger, who has hurt hi

ggie and I excl

. Sometime tonight th

ol!" said Ag

outside. The moment they are in we'll start to shoo

r and over. "You dreamed it! You must have! A thing like that!" I hastened to explain. "Tish planned it," I said. I reme