And it was the misfortune of Donald Spellman to come under Mart's aim.

Or perhaps it was his good fortune to be mortally wounded by a bullet, instead of ending his life as did the captives.

But Spellman had something to say before he died, and he said it to Walt Lampson.
"You got us," he gasped, "an' you got us right.

An' I only got one thing to tell you, an' to tell you quick.

I didn't plan that cattle stampede.
It was a dirty trick." "Who did ?" Walter asked eagerly.
And Spellman answered that question with the last words he ever spoke.
It was at this time that Injun, still crouching behind his boulder, saw something like a miracle--a dead man coming to life.