"Well, they'd have two men, any way, in that wagon.

Get down and picket.

We'll find the other fellow somewhere in the bluff." They came upon him within five minutes endeavoring to cut loose the remaining horse from the entangled harness in such desperate haste that he did not hear them until Stimson grasped his shoulder.
"Hold out your hands," he said.

"You have your carbine ready, trooper ?" The man made no resistance, and Stimson laughed when the handcuffs were on.
"Now," he said, "where's your partner ?" "I don't know that I mind telling you," said the prisoner.

"It was a low down trick he played on me.