They would have other things to say after they had deposited the wounded man in Stillwater.
The trip in was a painful one for Bill Gregg.

For one thing the exhaustion of the long three days' trip was now causing a wave of weariness to sweep over him.

The numbness, which had come through the leg immediately after the shooting, was now replaced by a steady and continued aching.

And more than all he was unnerved by the sense of utter failure, utter loss.

Never in his life had he fought so bitterly and steadily for a thing, and yet he had lost at the very verge of success..