Calumet picked up the rifle which he had taken from the elder Taggart,
mounted his horse, and drove the Taggart animals into the corral. He
decided that he would keep them there for an hour or so, to give the
Taggarts time to get well on their way toward the Arrow. Had he turned
them loose immediately they no doubt would have overtaken their masters
before the latter had gone very far.
Remounting, Calumet rode to the bend in the trail. He carried
Taggart's rifle. About a mile out on the plain that stretched away
toward the Arrow he saw the two men. They seemed to be walking rapidly.
Calumet returned to the ranchhouse, got a pick and shovel, and went
back to the timber clump. An hour later he was again at the corral.
He led the Taggart horses out, took them to the bend in the trail, and
turned them loose, for he anticipated that the Taggarts would make a
complaint to the sheriff about them, and if they were found in the Lazy
Y corral trouble would be sure to result.
He watched them until they were well on their way toward the Arrow, and
then he returned to the ranchhouse and went to bed. No one had heard
him, he told himself with a grin as he stretched out on the bed beside
Dade to sleep the hour that would elapse before daylight.
CHAPTER XX
BETTY TALKS FRANKLY
Betty, however, had not been asleep.
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