I got to have time to
think." Aloud he said: "Just you leave things to me. I'll get a line
on what's what. But you both got to do as I say, an' no augerin' about
it neither. It looks from here as if things could be straightened out
if someone don't go to work an' ball the jack. An' as for Sam passin'
insultin' remarks no more--he won't. Here he comes now with about half
Wolf River for a posse." The cowboy turned to Endicott: "You go 'long
with 'em an' lay low 'til you hear from Bat, there, or me. Then you do
as we say, an' don't ask no questions."
The rumble of horses' feet sounded from the direction of the little
town and the Texan whispered to Bat: "Find out where they lock him up.
An' when the excitement dies down you find me. I ain't a-goin' to lose
sight of _her_--see." The half-breed grinned his understanding and Tex
swung his horse in close beside the girl and awaited the coming of the
posse.
With a yell the onrushing cowboys whom the deputy had recruited from
the dance-hall spied the little group and, thundering up at full
gallop, formed a closely packed circle about them. Recognizing the
deputy who was vociferously urging his horse from the rear, Tex forced
his way through the circle and called him aside.
"Say, Sam," he drawled, in a tone that caused the deputy's hair to
prickle at its roots; "about some an' sundry insultin' remarks you
passed agin' the lady, yonder----"
"No, I never----"
"That'll be about all the lyin' you need to do now.
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