"It's no time for one of us to take on what may be done better by someone else, because our women and children are at stake.

The very best man's none too good for this job, and the more experience he has the better.

The man who thinks fastest and clearest at the right time is the man we want, and the man we'd follow--the only man.

Who'll he be ?" "Oh, I'll admit Banion had the best idea of crossing the Kaw," said Kelsey.

"He got his own people over, too, somehow." "Yes, and they're together now ten miles below us.