He knew that he was at the mercy of a score of rustlers, and quickly learned the situation.
Capt.

Asbury, Monteith Sterry, Dick Hawkridge and a number of cattlemen were besieged in his home.
While he was holding earnest converse with his captors one of them turned and addressed Inman, who was out of sight of the besieged, because of the intervening ridge.

His reply caused Whitney to dismount and walk in that direction, he, too, passing out of the field of vision.
He was invisible for perhaps ten minutes, when he was seen coming over the ridge toward his own door, but without his Winchester or revolvers.

A moment later he was admitted.

He kissed his mother and sister and grasped the hands of his friends, who crowded around to congratulate him and hear what he had to say.
"They told me everything," he replied, looking into the glowing faces, and smiling at the anxiety depicted on several.