The colonel told us Mr.Carr was to be kept at the ranch over night; wasn't to leave it alive, sir, he said.

Well, up to yesterday it was all right and pleasant.

Mr.Carr wasn't very well, and the doses the colonel gave him didn't seem to make him any better--quite the contrary.

But yesterday afternoon he got rampageous, would go, anyhow, ill or well! So he got up and dressed.

We'd taken all his weapons from him, sir, and when he came down dressed, and asked for his horse, we told him he couldn't go.