The woman was carrying a lantern, and its fitful, bobbing glare marked the woman's progress as she moved toward the bunkhouse--in which a light still burned.

For an instant the light from the lantern disappeared, and then they saw it again as it bobbed toward the open where the herd had been when the rustlers had struck.

Several times Antrim observed that the lantern became stationary--as though it had been placed upon the ground.

He grinned coldly as he spoke to Krell and Selden.
"That's Lawler's mother, I reckon.

She's huntin' for them boys that was foolish enough to try an' stop Slade.