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AS IT TURNED OUT.
They found H.J.Owens the next forenoon wandering hopelessly lost in the hills.

Since killing him was barred, they tied his arms behind him and turned him toward the Flying U.He was sullen, like an animal that is trapped and will do nothing but lie flattened to the ground and glare red-eyed at its captors.

For that matter, the Happy Family themselves were pretty sullen.

They had fought fire for hours--and that is killing work; and they had been in the saddle ever since, looking for the Kid and for this man who rode bound in their midst.
Weary and Irish and Pink, who had run across him in a narrow canyon, fired pistol-shot signals to bring the others to the spot.