responsibility will be on them, and we can be sworn in as deputies,
too,"

They rested in a grassy draw, about fifteen miles from town, and took
the trail again shortly after dark. It was an hour later that Fraser,
who had an extraordinary quick ear, heard the sound of men riding
toward them. He drew his party quickly into the shadows of the hills,
a little distance from the road.

They could hear voices of the advancing party, and presently could
make out words.

"I tell you, they've got to come in on this road, Slim," one of the
men was saying dogmatically. "We're bound to meet up with them. That's
all there is to it."

"Yorky," whispered Howard, in the ranger's ear.

They rode past in pairs, six of them in all. As chance would have it,
Siegfried's pony, perhaps recognizing a friend among those passing,
nickered shrilly its greeting. Instantly, the riders drew up.

"Where did that come from?" Yorky asked, in a low voice.

"From over to the right. I see men there now See! Up against that
hill." Slim pointed toward the group in the shadow.

Yorky hailed them. "That you, Sig?"

"Yuh bane von good guesser," answered the Norwegian.