Already Tex had his loop over the head of a speedy horse, and was leading it toward his saddle.

Curley, the quickest of them all, was giving frantic tugs to his latigo.

Bill was in the saddle ready to direct the search, and Sudden was standing by his car, wondering whether it would be possible to negotiate that rough country to the eastward with a "mechanical bronk." Nothing much was said.

You would have thought, to look at them, that they were merely in a hurry to get back to the work.

Nevertheless, if it should happen that Mary V was being annoyed or in any danger, it would go hard with the miscreants if the Rolling R boys once came within sight of them..