The moonlight, although strong, was not sufficiently so to show the words, which were written in lead-pencil.
Fred Whitney, therefore, struck a match and held it in front of the paper, while the recipient read in a low voice, loud enough, however, to be heard in the impressive hush: "MONT STERRY: If you stay in the Powder River country twenty-four hours longer you are a dead man.

Over fifty of us rustlers have sworn to shoot you on sight, whether it is at Fort McKinley, Buffalo, or on the streets of Cheyenne.

I have persuaded the majority to hold off for the time named, but not one of them will do so an hour longer, nor will I ask them to do so.

We are bound to make an honest living, and it is weak for me to give you this warning, but I do it, repeating that if you are within reach twenty-four hours from the night on which this is handed to Whitney I will join them in hunting you down, wherever you may be.
"LARCH CADMUS.".