He was to meet the same fate as Hoden, dealt by Bo Snecker, who evidently worked in the dark like a ferret.

Any other person known to be communing with Steele, or interested in him, or suspected of either, was to be silenced.

Then the town was to suffer a short deadly spell of violence, directed anywhere, for the purpose of intimidating those people who had begun to be restless under the influence of the Ranger.

After that, big herds of stock were to be rustled off the ranches to the north and driven to El Paso.
Then the big man, who evidently was the leader of the present convention, got up to depart.

He went as swiftly as he had come, and was followed by the slender fellow.