ANTRIM STRIKES From the doorway of the cabin on the Rabbit Ear, Antrim had watched Slade and his men ride away.

His gaze followed them until they vanished over the edge of the big plain above the river valley.

Then, smiling crookedly, he turned back into the cabin.
Two men--one of them the tall man who had ridden away to return with the news that Lawler and the sheriff were riding northward--were draped on chairs watching the outlaw chief.

They were expectant, eager; there was covert satisfaction in their eyes.
Like Selden, the other man wore two guns.

There was about both men an atmosphere that suggested stealth and violence.