Do you understand ?" Warden nodded, wearily, and dropped his chin to his chest.

After an interval, during which the crowd watched him intently, he staggered to his feet and reeled into the coach, and the crowd saw him no more.

An instant later the conductor went toward the coach, grinning, signaling the engineer.
A low cheer rose from the crowd as the train started, and a man far back toward the station shouted, loudly: "If they hadn't been in such a damned hurry, we'd have raised a collection to send him to hell!" A little later Lawler and Ruth and Shorty formed the van of the crowd that walked down the street toward the Wolf--where the Circle L men had left their horses.

Ruth walked between Lawler and Shorty.

Ruth was very pale, and her lips were trembling.