We'll wait till night." "Suits me," said Walt Lampson.

"I don't want no sheepman t' get me." There was a puff of smoke from the house, and a bullet whined over the men's heads.

They dropped to the ground.

The lynchers raised their rifles and emptied them, but not at the house.

Back of it and to the left was a raised water tank, and into the lower part of this the shots were directed.